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SURVEY  OF  NEEDS 


T.  B.  RAY 

SURVEY  DIRECTOR 


Mill  ions  for  the  Master 


BAPTIST  75  MILLION  CAMPAIGN 
NASHVILLE  TENNESSEE 


CONTENTS 

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Foreword  .  3 

Foreign  Missions  ...  5 

Christian  Education .  53 

Home  Missions  .  77 

State  Missions .  91 

Ministerial  Relief . .  104 

Orphanages  .  105 

Hospitals  .  113 


FOREWORD 


VERY  delegate  who  attended  the 
Southern  Baptist  Convention  in 
Atlanta,  May,  1919,  was  con¬ 
scious  of  the  presence  of  great, 
impending  issues.  Everyone  felt  that  the 
denomination  must  undertake  something 
worthy  of  itself  in  this  day  when  the  world 
is  turned  upside  down  reeking  with  need  and 
charged  with  opportunity.  It  was  not  sur¬ 
prising,  therefore,  that  the  Convention 
launched  a  campaign  to  raise  seventy-five 
million  dollars  for  its  missionary  and  benev¬ 
olent  enterprises. 


How  this  campaign  originated  no  one 
knows.  It  wras  not  the  plan  of  any  one  man 
or  of  any  group  of  men.  As  the  Conven¬ 
tion  developed,  it  seemed  to  arrive  at  the 
conclusion  that  this  great  task  should  be  un¬ 
dertaken  and,  believing  that  it  was  follow¬ 
ing  the  unmistakable  leading  of  the  Spirit 
of  God,  the  Convention,  with  great  enthu¬ 
siasm.  committed  itself  to  the  75  Million 
Campaign  and  appointed  a  Commission  of 
fifteen  to  devise  ways  and  means  for  carry¬ 
ing  unto  success  this  great  project. 


Soon  after  the  Convention  adjourned  and 
after  conference  with  the  Secretaries  of  the 
State  and  General  Boards,  the  Commission 
laid  its  plans  and  set  its  organization  into 
operation  by  adopting  Principles  of  Proced¬ 
ure  for  the  Commission,  electing  Dr.  L.  R. 
Scarborough,  of  Texas,  as  General  Director 
and  locating  the  headquarters  of  the  Cam¬ 
paign  in  Nashville,  Tenn.  Afterwards,  the 
Executive  Committee  of  the  Commission 
completed  the  organization  by  electing  B.  C. 
Hening.  Assistant  Director;  Highl  C.  Moore, 


Publicity  Director;  T.  B.  Ray,  Survey  Di¬ 
rector;  Frank  E.  Burkhalter,  Secular  Press; 
Mrs.  W.  J.  Neel,  W.  M.  U.  Director;  Mrs. 
Janie  Cree  Bose,  W.  M.  U.  Organizer;  I.  J. 
Van  Ness,  Treasurer. 

The  question  of  the  distribution  of  this 
fund  to  the  various  objects  was  referred  to 
the  Executive  Committee  of  the  Southern 
Baptist  Convention  for  adjustment.  This 
committee  met  and  allocated  the  money  as 
follows: 


Christian  Education 
Foreign  Missions 
Home  Missions 
State  Missions 
Ministerial  Relief 
Orphanages 
Hospitals 


$20,000,000 

20,000,000 

12,000,000 

11,000,000 

5,000,000 

4,700,000 

2,125.000 


At  a  subsequent  meeting,  the  item  of 
$175,000  for  the  National  Memorial  was 
referred  to  the  Home  Mission  Board  for  ad¬ 
justment,  and,  in  addition,  the  committee 
passed  the  following  resolution:  “That  the 
$75,000,000  be  divided  equally  between  the 
Southwide  and  State  causes;  that  $20,000,- 
000  be  apportioned  for  foreign  missions; 
$12,000,000  forborne  missions;  $3,000,000 
for  Southwide  educational  institutions;  $2,- 
500,000  for  Ministerial  Relief,  and  that  the 
remaining  $2,500,000  for  Ministerial  Re¬ 
lief  be  raised  at  the  end  of  the  five-year 
Campaign  and  within  the  succeeding  two 
years.” 

It  was  understood  that  the  slates  would 
provide  a  total  of  $20,000,000  for  Christian 
Education,  including  the  $3,000,000  for 
South-wide  educational  institutions  above 


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named;  $11,000,000  for  stale  missions;  $4,- 
700  000  for  orphanages,  and  $2,125,000  for 
hospitals.  The  proportion  for  these  objects 
will  vary  somewhat  in  the  states  to  meet  pe¬ 
culiar  conditions  in  certain  states,  but,  for 
all  practical  purposes,  the  original  alloca¬ 
tions  will  be  followed  and  it  is  hoped  and 
expected  that  the  sum  apportioned  original¬ 
ly — and  more — will  he  raised  for  every  ob¬ 
ject. 

The  Executive  Committee  of  the  Commis¬ 
sion  ordered  the  Survey  Director  to  institute 
a  survey  of  the  needs  to  be  met  by  the  75 
Million  Campaign.  The  results  of  this  sur¬ 
vey  are  given  in  the  following  pages.  The 
worthiness  of  the  needs  have  been  as  thor¬ 
oughly  tested  as  possible.  The  needs  in  the 
various  states  were  not  only  reviewed  by  tbe 
institutions  which  are  to  benefit  by  the  Fund, 
but  by  the  State  Mission  Boards  as  well. 
Cablegrams  were  sent  to  the  foreign  fields 
and  the  missions,  in  some  instances,  passed 
many  days  in  deciding  on  their  five-year  pro¬ 
gram.  Every  effort  was  made  to  insure  con¬ 
servatism  as  well  as  comprehensiveness  in 
making  up  these  programs.  The  survey  of 
the  Home  Mission  Board  was  conducted  in 
the  same  thoroughgoing  manner.  So  that 
the  statement  of  the  needs  to  he  met  by  the 
$75,000,000  Fund  can  he  considered  as  be¬ 
ing  the  minimum  needs  which  our  denomina¬ 
tion  should  undertake  to  meet  at  this  time. 
The  investigation  has  revealed  that  the 
amounts  included  in  the  $75,000,000  Fund 
for  the  various  divisions  are  not  sufficient. 
Specific  needs  have  been  cited  which  aggre¬ 
gate  far  above  the  $75,000,000.  It  is  un¬ 
questionably  true  that  Southern  Baptists, 
faced  as  they  are  by  actual  known  needs, 
ought  to  expend  upon  the  work  they  have 
laid  out  during  the  next  five  years  at  least 
$100,000,000. 

The  results  of  the  survey  are  set  forth  here 


in  the  following  general  divisions:  Foreign 
Missions,  Christian  Education,  Home  Mis¬ 
sions,  State  Missions,  Ministerial  Relief,  Or¬ 
phanages,  Hospitals. 

“For  the  first  time  in  the  history  of  our 
people,”  writes  a  special  Committee  of  the 
Commission,  “we  have  merged  all  our  benev¬ 
olences  into  one  budget  with  a  reasonable 
percentage  for  every  object.  For  the  first 
time  we  have  undertaken  a  task  that  chal¬ 
lenges  the  faith  and  heroism  of  us  all.  For 
the  first  time  we  have  planned  a  simulta¬ 
neous  Southwide  campaign  to  enlist  every 
pastor,  church  and  member.  For  the  first 
time  since  the  war  between  the  sections,  the 
Southland  is  abundantly  prosperous,  and  we, 
as  a  denomination,  are  amply  able  to  con¬ 
tribute  this  $75,000,000.  There  is  work 
enough  for  all.  Will  you  be  a  worker  in 
this  vineyard  of  the  Lord? 

“The  prospect  of  success  kindles  the 
imagination.  Denominational  papers  will 
fly  into  countless  homes  with  healing  in  their 
wings;  relief  will  go  to  our  heavily  bur¬ 
dened  schools  and  they  will  be  freed  for 
their  mission  of  light  and  learning;  the 
wounded  and  sick  will  feel  the  soothing  balm 
of  Gilead  in  the  Baptist  hospitals  of  the 
world;  the  aged  and  dependent  minister  will 
be  assured  of  sustenance  and  the  dark  cloud 
that  hangs  in  the  sky  of  many  a  preacher 
as  he  fears  an  impoverished  old  age  will  be 
dissipated;  the  cry  of  the  orphan  for  bread 
and  clothing  and  training  will  be  heard  and 
heeded  and  pure  and  undefiled  religion 
thereby  exemplified;  the  base  of  supplies  in 
the  homeland  will  be  strengthened  to  meet 
any  world  emergency;  the  gospel  of  Christ 
will  be  carried  to  the  uttermost  parts  of  the 
earth,  bringing  salvation  and  deliverance  to 
those  wdio  sit  in  darkness  and  in  the  shadow 
of  death.  Heaven  will  rejoice  and  all  the 
earth  be  glad.” 


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FOREIGN  MISSION  BOARD 

SUMMARY  OF  NEEDS 


PROPERTY 

148  Residences  for  Missionaries  $  663,800 

Land  and  Buildings  for  58  Churches  1,064,350 

Land,  Buildings  and  Equipment  for  147  Schools  3,265,875 

Land,  Buildings  and  Equipment  for  20  Hospitals  and 

Dispensaries  189,600 

Church  Building  Loan  Funds  540,800 

Extension  (opening  18  new  stations)  457,500 

Six  Publication  Houses  471,700 

Miscellaneous  255,175 

Additional  Property  Expenditures  in  Europe  2,773,450 


NEW  MISSIONARIES 

93  Men  for  Evangelistic  Work 
36  Women  for  Evangelistic  Work 
64  Men  for  Educational  Work 
61  Women  for  Educational  Work 
27  Men  Physicians 

3  Women  Physicians 
13  Trained  Nurses 

4  Men  for  General  Mission  Work 

Total  New  Missionaries  (if  men  are  married)  489 
Equipment  and  Outgoing  Expenses  of  489  New  Mis¬ 
sionaries  317,750 

Total  for  Property  and  New  Missionaries 

ANNUAL  MAINTENANCE 

Current  Expenses,  $2,000,000  per  year  for  five  years 

Grand  Total 


$10,000,000 

10,000,000 

$20,000,000 


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Courtyard  of  the  Forbidden  City,  Peking,  During  the  Victory  Celebration 


FOREIGN  MISSION  BOARD 

GENERAL  STATEMENT 


HE  first  section  of  our  Survey  is  de¬ 
voted  to  the  needs  of  the  Foreign 
Mission  Board.  In  this  section  we 
give,  first,  a  general  survey  of  the 
needs  to  be  met  and  follow  this  by 
detailed  estimates,  with  comments  on  the  same, 
of  the  needs  in  the  various  fields. 

It  will  be  noted  that  one-half  of  the  twenty 
millions  apportioned  to  foreign  missions  will  be 
used  in  providing  additional  property  equipment 
and  the  equipment  and  outgoing  expenses  of  489 
new  missionaries.  The  remaining  half,  or  ten  mil¬ 
lions,  will  be  spent  upon  the  annual  maintenance 
of  the  work.  The  term  “annual  maintenance” 
includes  the  expenses  of  administration  at  home, 
the  salaries  and  traveling  expenses  of  foreign  and 
native  missionaries,  the  running  expenses  of  the 
schools,  hospitals,  publication  houses,  rents,  etc., 
etc. — the  regular  current  expenses. 

It  was  not  possible  to  include  all  the  requests 
that  were  made  in  the  Survey.  More  than  two 
million  dollars  were  eliminated  on  property  items 
alone,  to  say  nothing  of  other  new  missionaries 
and  expansion.  This  sum  would  have  been  very 
much  larger  but  for  the  fact  that  the  missionaries 
considered  it  useless  to  make  larger  estimates  than 
have  been  made. 

It  will  be  noted  also  that  less  than  a  half  mil¬ 
lion  dollars  is  included  for  expansion.  This 


means  that  outside  of  reconstruction  work,  which 
we  hope  to  do  in  Europe,  we  are  practically  tak¬ 
ing  care  of  the  old  work  we  have  been  so  mea- 
gerly  supporting,  and  bringing  it  up  to  something 
like  the  proper  standard.  What  about  those  un¬ 
limited  opportunities  that  are  contiguous  to  all 
our  old  missions  and  which  could  be  entered  from 
these  old  missions  to  such  good  advantage?  Fac¬ 
ing  the  needs  as  they  are  in  our  foreign  mission 
work,  one  is  forced  to  the  conclusion  that  after 
we  have  spent  the  twenty  million  dollars  set  aside 
for  foreign  missions  in  the  75  Million  Campaign. 
Ave  are  onlv  ready  to  make  a  beginning.  The  great 
untouched  regions  beyond  are  still  beyond  us. 

A  missionary  says:  “Our  opportunities  are 
limitless  and  the  needs  so  great  that  they  just 
overcome  us.  But  we  rejoice  in  the  victory  at 
home  and  hope  for  more  equipment  and  more 
men  and  women.  How  wonderful  is  our  Lord!” 

The  thrill  of  joy  that  has  shot  through  our 
present  missionary  force  upon  receipt  of  the  news 
of  the  75  Million  Campaign  has  been  all  but  pa¬ 
thetic.  How  long  have  they  called  without  re¬ 
ceiving  help!  The  prospects  of  receiving  more 
adequate  support  is  almost  too  much  for  them. 
One  of  them  says:  “And  now  the  plan  to  raise 
$75,000,000  and  send  out  many  new  workers  to 
the  foreign  mission  fields — what  can  we  say  to 
that?  It  is  simply  wonderful,  glorious!  We  will 
try  to  do  our  part  praying.” 


The  Igbajo  Baptist  Church  and  Cong 


A  Congregation  at  One  of  the  Niger  Delta  Churches 


AFRICAN  MISSION 

SUMMARY  OF  NEEDS 

PROPERTY  NEEDS 

Eighteen  Residences  for  Missionaries 
Land,  Buildings,  Equipment  Seven  Schools 
Buildings  and  Equipment  Two  Hospitals 
Church  Building  Loan  Fund 
Extension  (three  new  stations) 

Miscellaneous 


$63,000 

94,000 

24,500 

10,800 

11,000 

7,375— $  210,675 


NEW  MISSIONARIES 

Three  Men  for  Evangelistic  Work 
Three  Single  Women  for  Evangelistic  Work 
Two  Doctors 
Three  Nurses 

Seven  Men  for  Educational  Work 

One  Single  Woman  for  Educational  Work 

Total  New  Missionaries  (if  men  are  married),  31 

Equipment  and  Outgoing  Expense  ($750  per  missionary)  23,250 

Grand  Total  $  233,925 


Street  Scene  Showing  Blacksmith  Shops,  Ogbomoso 

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DESCRIPTION  OF  NEEDS 


FRICA  is  the  largest  of  all  the  conti¬ 
nents.  It  is  half  again  as  large  as 
North  America.  Our  work  is  in  Ni¬ 
geria  amongst  the  Yorubans,  one  of 
the  most  virile  tribes  in  Africa.  Ni¬ 
geria  is  on  the  West  Coast  and  is  as  large  as  our 
Southern  States  east  of  the  Mississippi  omitting 
Florida  and  South  Carolina.  It  has  a  population 
about  the  same  as  that  of  our  eastern  tier  of  South¬ 


ern  States. 

RESIDENCES  FOB  MISSIONARIES 
Abeokuta 

For  Evangelistic  Family  $  3,500 

For  Educational  Family  3,500 

For  Evangelistic  Woman  Worker  3,500 

Oyo 

For  Evangelistic  Family  3,500 

For  Doctor  3,500 

For  Nurses  and  Single  Woman  3,500 

Ogbomoso 

For  Principal  Theological  Seminary  3,500 
For  Vice-Principal  Theological  Seminary  3,500 
For  Evangelistic  Family  3,500 


For  Doctor  on  New  Site  for  Hospital  3,500 

For  Nurses  and  Single  Women  3,500 

For  Second  Doctor  3,500 

For  Educationalist  in  Academy  3,500 

Lagos 

For  Educationalist  High  School  3,500 

For  Second  Educationalist  High  School  3,500 

Iseyin 

For  Evangelistic  Missionary  3,500 

Niger  Delta 

For  Missionary  in  Charge  of  Delta  Work  3,500 
Industrial  School  (to  be  centrally  located) 

For  Second  Missionary  3,500 


Comfortable,  sunproof,  well-ventilated  and 
thoroughly  screened  houses  are  essenfiat  To  the 
health  and  efficiency  of  missionaries  laboring  in 
the  Tropics.  To  the  tired  and  sometimes  weary 
missionary,  the  home  is  a  veritable  haven  of  rest. 
To  our  lady  missionaries,  the  modest,  comfortably 
furnished  home  is  her  heart’s  desire  and  delight, 
for  there  she,  as  a  true  woman,  can  dispense 
good  cheer,  comfort  and  rest,  not  only  to  those 
of  her  own  household,  but  to  the  occasional  guest, 


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Womcu’s  Society,  Ogbomoso 


to  the  government  official,  trader  or  missionary 
whose  good  fortune  it  is  to  be  entertained  in 
her  home.  The  modest,  comfortable  missionary 
home  makes  for  health,  happiness,  effectiveness 
and  efficiency  in  missionary  service. 


GIRLS’  SCHOOL,  ABEOKUTA 

Enlarging  the  Present  School  $  3,500 

Dining  Room,  Laundry,  Kitchen  1,000 

Second  Addition  to  the  School  15,000 

CIRLS’  SCHOOL  FOR  THE  COUNTRY  NORTH 
OF  IBADAN 

Location  to  be  Decided  Later  5,000 


A  great  native  need  in  West  Africa  is  for 
housekeepers,  homemakers  and  wives  who  will 
be  true  helpers  and  companions  to  their  hus¬ 
bands.  There  are  plenty  of  women  (some  men 
can  count  theirs  by  the  score ) ,  but  not  many 
wives.  A  practical  education  for  girls  and  young 
women  that  includes  the  study  and  practice  of 
Domestic  Science  in  its  relation  and  applica¬ 
tion  in  West  African  life  and  social  conditions 
is  one  of  the  great  outstanding  needs  of  Ni¬ 
geria.  For  several  years,  in  a  small  way,  we  have 
been  doing  this  work  at  Abeokuta,  but  the  time  is 
ripe  and  the  call  urgent  to  enlarge  and  develop 
this  phase  of  mission  work.  Training  women 
to  be  true  wives  is  one  of  the  most  effective 
ways  to  help  solve  and  to  overcome  the  great 
polygamy  question  that  now  confronts  all  Mis¬ 
sions  in  West  Africa. 


DAY  SCHOOLS  AND  ACADEMY 

New  Day  School  Building,  Ogbomoso  $  3.000 

Boys’  Academy,  Ogbomoso  5,000 

Second  Building,  Boys’  Academy,  Ogbomoso  10,000 

Additional  Equipment,  Boys’  Academy  1,500 

High  School  Property,  Lagos  30,000 


The  youth  of  Nigeria  are  turning  from  the 
religions  of  their  fathers.  The  coming  of  the 
white  man  and  the  civilization  that  follows  in 
his  wake,  the  introduction  of  railroads,  automo¬ 


biles,  motor-vans  and  other  vehicles,  changes  in 
the  political  situation,  the  new  and  larger  op¬ 
portunities  for  trade  and  commerce — all  of  these 
have  combined  to  implant  within  the  rising  gen¬ 
eration  new  ideas,  new  viewpoints,  new  ambi¬ 
tions,  a  dissatisfaction  with  the  old  and  primi¬ 
tive  ways  of  their  fathers.  They  want  to  emerge 
from  the  things  of  the  past  and  have  a  place 
in  the  new  order  of  things.  To  meet  this  situa¬ 
tion,  we  must  have  modern,  well-equipped 
Christian  day  schools  and  academies,  where  the 
boys  and  young  men  may  have  an  opportunity 
to  help  themselves  enter  into  the  advantages  of 
Christian  civilization  and  education.  The  con¬ 
version  of  these  pupils  and  students  and  their 
identification  with  our  Baptist  churches  ensure 
for  Baptists  in  the  years  to  come  a  certain  num¬ 
ber  of  influential  laymen,  financially  able  to  aid 
and  provide  in  a  large  way  for  the  home  mis¬ 
sion  work  of  Nigeria  and  the  foreign  mission 
work  in  other  African  Colonies. 

THEOLOGICAL  SEMINARY 

Furniture  and  Equipment  $  2,000 

Complete  Building  2,500 

Additional  Building  10.000 


Twins  in  Their  Cradles 


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King  of  Ogbomoso  with  Two  of  His  Favorite  Wives 


A  converted,  educated.  Biblically  trained  na¬ 
tive  ministry  is  not  only  a  tremendous  asset,  but 
an  absolute  necessity  to  an  effective  and  evan¬ 
gelistic  Mission.  We  have  a  few  such  men,  but 
we  need  scores  more.  In  no  part  of  the  world 
is  there  a  greater  need  for  staightforward,  clear- 
cut,  scriptural,  unadulterated  presentation  of 
New  Testament  teachings  than  is  to  be  found 
among  the  people  of  West  Africa.  To  train  men 
to  preach  the  gospel,  to  rightly  interpret  the 
Word  of  God,  to  lead  our  churches  according 
to  New  Testament  ideals  and  practices,  to  com¬ 
bat  the  many  errors  and  isms  and  to  help  stem 
the  advance  of  the  Mohammedan  hosts,  we  must 
have  our  Theological  Seminary  at  Ogbomoso 
manned  and  equipped  so  that  it  may  be  to  our 
African  Mission  what  our  great  Seminaries  and 
Bible  Schools  at  Louisville,  Ft.  Worth  and  New 
Orleans  are  to  our  Southern  Baptist  Convention. 

INDUSTRIAL  SCHOOL 

Portable  Machinery  $  500 

Industrial  School  Plant  5,000 

A  centrally  located,  well-equipped  institution 
for  the  training  of  mechanics  and  introducing 
more  modern  methods  of  farming  would  render 
a  colossal  service,  not  only  to  the  Baptist  cause, 
but  also  to  the  Colony  of  Nigeria,  and,  inciden¬ 
tally,  to  the  United  States  and  other  pa'Ts  of 
the  world,  for  in  the  future  Nigeria  will  doubt¬ 
less  figure  in  a  large  way  as  an  exporter  of  cot¬ 
ton,  corn,  peanuts  and  palm  oil.  Some  of  the 
natives  of  Nigeria  will  follow  a  professional, 
political  or  business  life,  but  the  crreat  mass  of 
the  male  population  will  work  with  their  hands, 
either  as  mechanics  or  farmers.  To  train  Chris¬ 
tian  mechanics  and  farmers  is  a  work  overflow¬ 
ing  with  possibilities  of  usefulness  and  blessing 
to  a  community.  A  centrally  located  industrial 
school  could  render  signal  service  to  our  Mission 
as  a  whole;  with  its  experienced  and  skilled  super¬ 
visors  and  its  trained  builders  and  carpenters,  it 
should  insure  the  erection  of  Mission  buildings 
that  would  be  a  credit  to  our  Mission. 


MEDICAL  WORK 
Oyo 

Completing  and  Etpiipping  Hospital  $  2,500 
Hospital  Building  10  000 

Ogbomoso 

Completing  and  Equipping  Hospital  2,500 

Additional  Hospital  Building  10,000 

“Preach  the  Gospel,  heal  the  sick,”  is  the 
Scriptural  injunction.  In  a  country  where  cli¬ 
matic,  hygienic  and  sanitary  conditions  are  ad¬ 
verse  to  health,  and  where  there  are  numerous 
communities  of  from  5,000  to  150,000  population, 
great  centers  without  any  qualified  physician, 
with  an  infant  mortality  of  50  per  cent  and  more, 
where  the  teeming  thousands  are  steeped  in 
ignorance,  superstition  and  fetish  worship,  surely 
there  is  a  heart-breaking  need  for  the  twofold 
phase  of  mission  work  that  preaches  the  Gospel 
and  heals  the  sick,  ministering  to  the  spiritual 
and  physical  sickness  of  the  needy  multitude. 

Southern  Baptists  have  no  well-equipped  hos¬ 
pital  in  Nigeria.  Your  medical  missionaries  have 
for  years  been  doing  their  surgical  work  in  grass- 
roofed  sheds  and  outhouses,  and  yet  the  Lord  has 
given  a  large  measure  of  success  and  blessed  their 
efforts.  What  a  happy  day  it  will  be  for  those 
needy  communities,  for  the  medical  missionaries 
and  for  Southern  Baptists  when  we  have  one  or 
two  thoroughly  up-to-date,  well-equipped  hospi¬ 
tals!  These  will  give  facilities  and  provide  op¬ 
portunities  for  preaching  the  Gospel  and  demon¬ 
strating  Gospel  teaching  to  multitudes  in  all  ranks 
of  life,  as  no  other  phase  of  mission  work  can  do. 

LIGHT  AND  POWER  PLANTS 

Oyo  $2  000 

Ogbomoso  2  000 

This  is  for  the  purpose  of  furnishing  electric 
lights  for  the  Mission  residences,  the  school  build¬ 
ings  and  the  hospitals  at  the  Ogbomoso  and  Oyo 
Stations,  also  to  make  possible  the  use  of  the  X- 
ray  apparatus  at  the  hospitals.  What  a  boon  the 
electric  light  will  be  to  the  missionaries  and  to 
the  students  of  our  Seminary  and  Academy! 


Water  Carriers,  Ogbomoso 


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What  a  saving  to  the  eyes  of  all  concerned  to 
replace  the  dim  light  of  kerosene  lanterns  and 
lamps  with  electric  lights!  It  will,  after  the 
initial  expense  of  installing  the  plant,  be  a  great 
economy  from  a  financial  point  of  view,  kero¬ 
sene  sells  at  one  dollar  per  gallon,  and  oftentimes 
lamps  are  out  of  commission  for  want  of  lamp 
chimneys,  which  cannot  he  obtained  nearer  than 
Lagos,  two  hundred  miles,  or  perhaps  England, 
nearly  5,000  miles  distant. 

CHURCH  BUILDINGS 

Church  Building  Loan  Fund  $10  800 

Native  Workers'  Houses  (at  $375  each)  3  375 

These  houses,  simple  in  plan  and  construction, 
supply  the  need  of  the  native  worker  for  a  home 
and  also  offer  the  following  advantages  to  our 
mission  work: 

1.  Provides  one  or  more  rooms  as  camping 
quarters  for  the  missionary  when  visiting  out- 
stations. 

2.  Being  built  with  a  large  central  room,  it 
provides  a  meeting  place  that  can  be  used  as  a 
school  or  church  until  such  time  as  a  regular 
school  ©r  church  building  is  needed  and  can  be 
erected. 

3.  It  facilitates  the  plan  for  transferring  the 
native  worker  from  one  station  to  another. 

4.  It  should  demonstrate  to  the  native  com¬ 
munity  wTiat  a  Christian  home  from  the  native 
standpoint  should  be  and  how  it  could  be  main¬ 
tained. 

The  policy  of  the  African  Mission  is  to  en¬ 
courage  native  congregations  to  build  and  keep 
in  repair  their  houses  of  worship.  In  place  of 
direct  grants  in  aid,  or  of  the  Mission  erecting 
the  church  building,  it  is  for  the  good  of  the 
church  that,  as  far  as  possible,  they  provide  the 
money  to  erect  their  building.  Should  special  con¬ 
ditions  arise  and  some  financial  help  he  needed, 
the  Church  Building  Loan  Fund  will  provide  a 
way  for  the  church  to  obtain  a  loan  for  a  certain 
period  at  a  definite  rate  of  interest.  The  repay¬ 
ment  of  these  loans,  with  the  interest  thereon,  will 
make  it  possible  to  help  manv  of  our  churches 
to  e^ect  suitable  buildings  for  their  church  and 
Bible  School  work. 

NEW  WORK— EXTENSION  WORK 

Opening  Work  in  the  Delta  Region  $  500 

Opening  Work  at  Iseyin  Station  500 

To  Extend  Work  in  the  Hausa  States  10  000 

DELTA  REGION 

A  large  work  in  this  region  was  organized  and 
supervised  by  the  late  Rev.  Mojala  Agbebi,  one  of 
our  Baptist  leaders  at  Lagos  a  truly  great  man 
now  passed  to  his  reward.  This  work,  located  in 
the  Niger  Delta,  and  extending  on  to  the  main¬ 
land,  needs  the  supervision  of  a  missionary.  This 
is  a  wTork  of  great  possibilities,  if  a  patient,  sym¬ 


pathetic,  tact  I  id  and  Biblical  leadership  can  bo 
given  to  it. 

ISEYIN 

Ibis  is  a  large  and  important  town  on  tin 
main  highway  between  our  two  Mission  Stations- 
Oyo  and  Shaki.  A  great  Mohammedan  town,  yet 
there  is  a  company  of  young  men  who  are  re¬ 
sponding  to  our  native  worker  and  who  are  anxiou- 
to  see  a  Baptist  church  organized  there.  A  Mis- 
sion  station  at  Iseyin  would  link  up  the  Oyo  and 
Shaki  work,  besides  forming  a  center  from  which 
work  could  be  carried  on  in  several  smaller  towns 
or  outstations.  We  must  enter  Iseyin  as  soon  as 
possible. 

EXTENSION  WORK 

Hausa  States  and  Soudan.  Already,  small  com¬ 
panies  of  Baptists  from  our  Yoruba  churches  have 
gone  to  the  large  trading  centers  in  the  Hausa 
States  for  the  purpose  of  trade.  They  meet  for 
worship  and  Christian  fellowship,  and  at  least 
one  church  building  has  been  erected  and  services 
conducted  in  the  Hausa  language  are  held  every 
Sunday.  These  Christian  companies  should  be¬ 
come  centers  of  Christian  influence,  and  the  means 
to  open  doors  of  opportunity  in  these  large  and 
important  Llausa  cities.  A  fund  should  be  avail¬ 
able  for  visiting  these  cities  and  making  a  survey 
of  the  Hausa  and  other  fields,  also  to  give  partial 
and  occasional  oversight  to  these  Christian  com¬ 
panies  and,  as  opportunity  presents,  to  proceed 
with  the  Hausa  work. 

NEW  MISSIONARIES 

Man  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Southeast  of 
Ogbomoso 

Second  Doctor  for  Ogbomoso 

Trained  Nurse  for  Ogbomoso 

Man  for  Theological  School,  Ogbomoso 

Second  Man  for  Theological  School,  Ogbomoso 

Second  Trained  Nurse,  Ogbomoso 

School  Man,  Abeokuta 

School  Man  for  Academy,  Ogbomoso 

Woman  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Abeokuta 

Woman  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Oyo 

Woman  for  Women's  Work,  Ogbomoso 

Kindergarten  Teacher,  Oyo 

Second  Trained  Nurse,  Oyo 

Doctor  for  Oyo 

Man  for  High  School,  Lagos 

Second  Man  for  High  School,  Lagos 

Second  Man  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Iseyin 

Second  Man  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Niger  Delta 

Second  Man  for  Industrial  Work 

The  above  list  of  new  missionaries,  consisting  of 
ten  families,  three  nurses,  two  doctors  and  four 
single  women,  are  necessary  additions  to  our 
present  staff  to  ensure  continuity  of  work  and  to 
use  the  added  equipment  to  its  desired  and  pos¬ 
sible  capacity.  These,  in  addition  to  our  present 
staff,  will  give  a  total  of  forty-seven  missionares 
to  the  millions  of  people  within  the  present  scope 
of  the  Nigeria  Baptist  Convention. 


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LATIN  AMERICA 


12 


ARGENTINE  MISSION 


SUMMARY  OF  NEEDS 


PROPERTY  NEEDS 

Nine  Church  Buildings 

Buildings  and  Equipment  for  Four  Schools 

Publication  Work 

Church  Building  Loan  Fund 

Extension 


NEW  MISSIONARIES 

Four  Men  for  Evangelistic  Work 
One  Man  for  General  Station  Work 
Two  Men  for  Educational  Work 
One  Single  Woman  for  General  Station  Work 
Two  Single  Women  for  Educational  Work 
Total  New  Missionaries  (if  men  are  married),  17 

Equipment  and  Outgoing  Expenses  ($650  per  Missionary)  $  11,050 

Grand  Total  $  263,550 

DESCRIPTION  OF  NEEDS 

buildings.  It  is  next  to  impossible  to  get  even 
our  own  people  to  realize  that  we  are  more  than 
wanderers  and  strangers.  The  impression  on  the 
general  public  is  much  worse.  One  who  has  his 
own  property  is  regarded  with  far  more  respect 
than  a  renter.  Our  rented  halls  place  our  work 
on  the  same  basis,  so  far  as  the  public  mind  is 
concerned,  with  working  men’s  societies,  political 
party  meetings,  etc.  Almost  without  exception, 
the  churches  for  which  we  are  asking  buildings 
are  seriously  hampered  for  want  of  sufficient 
room.  The  general  idea  of  the  Mission  is  that  we 
should  not  attempt  to  build  any  imposing  struc¬ 
tures  for  the  present,  nor  would  it  he  possible  with 
the  modest  amounts  which  we  have  requested.  We 
want  to  build  sufficiently  large  auditoriums  to  ac¬ 
commodate  the  congregations,  even  on  special 
occasions,  provide  them  with  light  and  ventilation 
and  agreeable  appearance;  also  Sunday  school 
rooms,  which  can  be  used  for  primary  day 
schools,  where  desirable. 

For  chapels  in  the  smaller  towns  where  we  have 
work,  away  from  the  larger  centers,  we  are  very 
anxious  for  a  fund  which  may  be  used  largely  as  a 
bu’lding  and  loan  fund. 


N  our  recent  Mission  meeting  we  have 
tried  to  meet  your  request  and  to 
foresee  the  real  needs  for  advance 
in  the  next  five  years.  We  have 
worked  through  the  program  thor¬ 
oughly  and  tried  to  fix  our  minimum  needs.  The 
estimates  indicating  the  appeals  for  men  and 
money  do  not  mean  that  we  could  not  use  more 
men  and  more  money.  We  believe  we  are  con¬ 
servative  in  our  requests. 

CHURCH  BUILDINGS 

First  Church,  Rosario  (for  completing  build¬ 


ing)  $  1.000 

North  District  Church,  Rosario  3,000 

Church  Building,  Pringles  1.500 

Southwest  District  Church,  Buenos  Aires  15  000 
Constitucion  Church,  Buenos  Aires  30,000 

Land  and  Church  Building,  Montevideo  21,500 

Once  Church  Building,  Buenos  Aires  25.000 

Mendoza  Church  Building  10  000 

Chapel  Talleres  3,000 

Church  Building,  Corrientes  5,000 

Church  Building,  Asuncion,  Paraguay  10.000 

Church  Building  Loan  Fund  for  Entire  Mis¬ 
sion  25,000 


Our  work  has  suffered  greatly  because  of  inap¬ 
propriate  buildings.  We  worship  in  rented  store- 


$  108,500 

72,500  . 

30,000 

25,000 

16,500 — $  252,500 


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Don  Pablo  Besson,  the  Baptist  Patriarch  of  Argentina 


Ihe  items  for  the  church  buildings  at  Corrientes, 
Pringles  and  Asuncion  represent  extension.  They 
are  all  very  important  for  especial  reasons.  In 
particular,  the  amount  for  the  church  at  Asuncion 
is  urgent  because  the  native  Argentine  Board, 
which  is  opening  Mission  work  in  Paraguay,  needs 
to  have  this  substantial;  encouragement  in  its 
good  work. 

PUBLICATION  BOARD  $30  000 

In  a  very  real  sense,  the  progress  and  stability 
of  the  entire  work  depend  upon  the  development 
and  circulation  of  Christian  literature.  We  are 
just  getting  to  the  point  where  we  are  able  to  see 
definite  promise  in  this  line  of  our  Mission  ac¬ 
tivity.  For  this  work  we  should  have  at  least 
>30,000  l  gold  I  in  the  next  five  years,  and  we  can 
confidently  say  that  if  this  work  be  duly  strength¬ 
ened,  we  can  expect  steady  progress  all  along 
the  line. 


SCHOOL  EQUIPMENT 

Boys’  High  School.  Buenos  Aires  $50  000 

Theological  Training  School,  Buenos  Aires  12.500 
Equipment  Girls’  School,  Rosario  (rented 

premises)  5,000 

Agricultural  School  5,000 


The  Mission  has  been  discussing  and  planning 
in  a  general  way  for  a  number  of  years  a  good 
boys’  school  in  the  Argentine  capital.  It  is  indeed 
time  we  were  realizing  our  hopes  in  this  respect. 
\\  e  recommend  that  the  beginning  be  upon  a  mod¬ 
erate  plan,  both  as  to  the  number  of  students 
and  equipment. 

The  next  logical  step  in  educational  work  is  a 
girls’  school.  The  logical  point  seems  to  be 
Rosario.  We  suggest  that  Mrs.  J.  L.  Hart  be  at 


the  head  of  this  school,  the  need  of  which  is  thor¬ 
oughly  recognized. 

Our  plans  for  the  Theological  Training  School 
propose  a  separate  building,  located  near  the 
future  Boys'  High  School.  It  will  be  splendid  to 
have  a  home  for  the  boys.  At  present,  there  are 
eight  students,  seven  of  whom  live  in  our  rented 
house  and  one  comes  in  for  classes.  The  eicrht 
make  a  hopeful  group. 

We  also  urge  the  opening  of  an  Agricultural 
School  to  meet  the  evident  need  of  better  farmers 
and  herdsmen  in  this  country,  almost  wholly  dedi¬ 
cated  to  such  pursuits.  Perhaps,  many  of  the  sons 
of  our  present  converts  could  be  induced  to  leave 
the  cities  and  go  to  live  well  on  farms.  Such  a 
result  would  be  a  great  blessing  now  and  the  basis 
of  future  strength  for  the  work. 

NEW  MISSIONARIES 

Man  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Cordoba  District 
Man  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Entre  Rios  District 
Man  for  General  Work,  Montevideo 
Man  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Bahia  Blanca  District 
Man  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Tucuman  District 
Man  for  Educational  Work,  Buenos  Aires 
Single  Woman  for  High  School,  Buenos  Aires 
Single  Woman  for  Girls’  School,  Rosario 
Single  Woman,  for  General  Work,  Montevideo 
Man  for  Work  in  Agricultural  School 

While  our  Mission  realizes  the  needs  and  the 
importance  of  all  the  distinct  phases  of  mission¬ 
ary  activity,  our  belief  is  that  the  work  of  evan¬ 
gelization  is  the  most  important  of  all.  In  en¬ 
deavoring  to  carry  it  forward  we  have  found  our¬ 
selves  badly  undermanned.  For  the  past  ten  years 
our  missionary  ranks  have  received  absolutely  no 
reinforcements.  We  are  now  rejoiced  that  better 
days  seem  to  be  looming  ahead. 


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Seminary  Building.  Pernambuco 


Woman’s  Training  School  Building,  Pernambuco 


NORTH  BRAZIL  MISSION 


SUMMARY  OF  NEEDS 


PROPERTY 

Six  Residences  lor  Missionaries 

Land.  Buildings  and  Equipment  for  5  Schools 

Church  Building  Loan  Fund 

Launch 


$  21,000 
180,000 
50,000 

3.000—$  254.000 


MISSIONARIES 

Five  Men  for  Educational  Work 
Five  Men  lor  Evangelistic  Work 
One  Physician 

One  Single  Woman  for  Educational  Work 

Total  Number  of  Missionaries  (if  men  are  married),  23 

Equipment  and  Outgoing  Expenses  ($650  per  missionary)  14,950 

Grand  Total  $  268,950 


Students  Collegio  Americano  Baptista,  Pernambuco 

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Rear  View  Pernambuco  College  Campu* 


DESCRIPTION  OF  NEEDS 


ORTH  BRAZIL  is  more  than  sixty 
times  the  size  of  Virginia,  is  ten  times 
as  large  as  Texas,  has  a  territory  over 
two  and  a  half  times  that  of  the 
Southern  Baptist  Convention. 

The  evangelization  of  this  vast  land  has  only 
begun.  The  two  best  evangelized  fields  are  Bahia 
and  Pernambuco.  Leaving  the  city  of  Bahia,  one 
may  ride  two  days  on  a  train  that  goes  to  the 
northern  boundary  of  the  state,  pass  much  people 
and  many  good  towns,  but  he  will  see  only  one 
Baptist  church  and  one  preaching  point.  The 
State  of  Pernambuco  has  sixty-nine  counties.  We 
have  work  established  in  only  fifteen,  and  in  most 
of  them  only  one  church.  Yet  these  two  states  are 
where  we  are  strongest. 

RESIDENCES  FOR  MISSIONARIES 

Changing  School  Building  into  Residence, 


Bahia  $3,000 

Residence  for  Second  Missionary,  Bahia  6,000 

Residence  for  Missionary,  Sergipe  6,000 

Residences  for  Three  Missionaries,  Corrente  6,000 


Comfortable  houses  for  our  missionaries  in 
North  Brazil  needs  no  comment  further  than  to 
call  attention  to  the  latitude  in  which  this  Mis¬ 
sion  is  located. 


SCHOOL  EQUIPMENT 
College,  Pernambuco 

Completing  and  Furnishing  Left  Wing  of 
Main  Building  $  6,000 

Remodeling  Old  Building  10,000 

Remodeling  Seminary  Building  for  Kitch¬ 
en,  Baths,  etc.  9,000 

Erection  Right  Wing  Main  Building  25,000 

Addition  to  Main  Building  to  Provide 

Chapel  and  Class  Rooms  50,000 

Building  for  Theological  Seminary,  Pernam¬ 
buco  25,000 

Renovation  of  Woman’s  Training  School  Build¬ 
ing,  Pernambuco  5,000 


Equipment  of  Industrial  School,  Corrente, 


$5,000  per  year  25,000 

School  at  Casca,  Bahia 

First  Building  15,000 

Two  Residences  for  Missionaries  5,000 

Equipment  5,000 


The  Collegio  Americano  Baptista  is  our  literary 
and  commercial  high  school,  located  in  Pernam¬ 
buco,  which  makes  possible  a  trained  lay  leader¬ 
ship  for  North  Brazil.  The  student  body  has 
quadrupled  in  four  years.  Its  matriculation  is 
now  400.  With  adequate  quarters  it  will  enroll 
1,000  students  and  mightily  influence  them  for  the 
Gospel  of  Christ.  The  institution  needs  $50,000 
immediately  and  $50,000  next  year  to  complete 
projected  buildings. 

The  North  Brazil  Seminary  in  Pernambuco  is, 
at  present,  domiciled  in  a  two-story  building  which 
was  erected  without  expense  to  the  Board.  That 
structure,  however,  will  be  remodeled  to  form  a 
part  of  the  projected  high  school  building.  The 
Seminary  student  body,  both  for  the  sake  of  a 
more  liberal  discipline  than  they  can  now  enjoy, 
and  for  the  sake  of  a  deeper  spiritual  life,  needs 
separate  dormitory  and  class-rooms.  The  denomi¬ 
nation  has  just  bought  five  acres  and  the  house 
which  serves  the  Woman’s  Training  School.  Back 
in  the  Palm  Grove,  on  the  rear  of  this  property, 
is  one  of  several  excellent  sites  for  the  needed  new 
quarters.  They  will  cost  $25,000.  The  reasona¬ 
ble  expansion,  then,  which  the  Seminary  asks  for 
these  next  five  years  is  a  missionary  for  distinctly 
theological  teaching  and  a  simple,  serviceable, 
separate  home. 

The  School  for  Christian  Women  Workers  has 
passed  the  experimental  stage.  It  has  taken  hold 
of  the  heart  of  the  denomination  as  nothing  has 
ever  done.  They  are  giving  its  home.  The  house 
which  the  Training  School  occupies  is  old,  but 


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solid  ami  roomy.  But,  as  it  lias  been  rented  prop¬ 
erty  all  these  years,  we  could  never  make  any 
changes.  Now  that  the  property  is  ours,  and  is 
to  be  used  by  the  Training  School,  it  must  be  re¬ 
modeled,  repaired  and  refitted,  so  as  to  make  it 
habitable  for  the  young  women  who  are  to  be 
trained  here  for  Christian  service. 

The  Brazilian  constituency  is  to  furnish  the 
grounds  and  buildings  for  the  Baptist  Industrial 
Inst  itute  at  Corrente.  That  represents  great  lib¬ 
erality  on  their  part.  The  equipment  will  need 
to  come  from  the  Board.  Next  year  they  need  a 
launch,  school  furniture  and  a  wagon.  The  fol¬ 
lowing  year,  as  the  buildings  go  up,  they  will 
need  other  school  equipment  and  agricultural  and 
industrial  supplies.  Mr.  Hayes  and  Mr.  Terry 
have  made  careful  estimates  of  their  needs  and 
place  them  at  $5,000  a  year  for  five  years. 

The  Instituto  Baptista  Bahiano  is  a  new  school 
located  in  Casca.  Casca  is  located  in  the  moun¬ 
tainous  region  2,000  feet  above  sea  level,  and  is 
180  miles  interior  from  Bahia.  This  is  a  promis¬ 
ing  Baptist  center.  In  this  district  there  are  more 
than  thirty  prosperous  churches  and  many 
flourishing  congregations.  The  Brazilian  people 
are  donating  100  acres  of  land,  which  includes 
an  excellent  building  site.  The  location  is  ideal. 
The  school,  which  ha's  been  conducted  heretofore 
in  the  city  of  Bahia,  will  be  moved  to  Casca,  where, 
separated  from  the  severe  temptations  of  Bahia 
City,  the  students  will  have  a  much  safer  environ¬ 
ment  in  which  to  do  their  work.  This  new  situa¬ 
tion  is  full  of  promise. 

CHURCH  BUILDING  LOAN  FUND  $50,000 

Three  years  ago  there  were  reported  in  North 
Brazil  twenty-eight  church  houses.  This  year 
there  are  seventy-eight.  And  that  tremendous 
growth  has  been  achieved  without  one  dollar  be¬ 
ing  given  by  Southern  Baptists  to  any  of  these 
churches.  Two  large  school  properties  besides 
stand  as  a  monument  to  the  Building  Loan 
Fund  of  our  Mission.  The  Fund  was  started  by 
the  gifts  of  missionaries,  and  they  have  no  fear 
as  to  its  financial  stability.  They  ask  for  a  larger 
reserve  fund  merely  that  they  may  enlarge  their 
opportunity  and  heed  sooner  the  many  requests 


for  help.  A  loan  on  reasonable  terms  of  month¬ 
ly  payments  is  a  stimulus  to  llie  churches  to  erect 
their  buildings.  No  work  is  considered  perma¬ 
nent  in  Brazil  until  it  has  a  house  of  its  own. 
That  is  why  we  want  to  help  every  Baptist  church 
and  many  of  the  schools  to  help  themselves  and 
develop  the  spiritual  muscle  that  such  activity  will 
grow  in  the  denomination. 

LAUNCH  (for  E.  A.  Nelson)  $3,000 

Brother  Nelson,  called  by  many  the  “apostle  of 
the  Amazon,”  goes  over  vast  stretches  of  water 
in  carrying  on  his  work.  His  usefulness  would  be 
greatly  multiplied  by  the  use  of  a  good  launch 
and  his  health  would  likewise  be  fortified. 

NEW  MISSIONARIES 

Man  for  Educational  Work,  Manaus 

Man  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Para 

Man  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Interior  State  of  Bahia 

Man  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Parahyba 

Man  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Corrente 

Man  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Piauhy 

Second  Physician,  Corrente 

Single  Woman  for  Primary  Normal  Department 
Training  School,  Pernambuco 
Man  for  Principal  of  High  School,  Pernambuco 
Man  for  Science  Teacher,  Pernambuco 
Man  for  Theological  Seminary,  Pernambuco 
Second  School  Man,  Casca,  Bahia 
No  adequate  evangelistic  force  can  be  main¬ 
tained  in  connection  with  undermanned  institu¬ 
tions.  Educational  and  administrative  work  once 
begun  cannot  be  left  without  executives.  Expe¬ 
rience  teaches  us  that,  if  an  institution  is  under¬ 
manned,  it  invariably  draws  on  the  men  who 
would  gladly  give  themselves  to  evangelism,  but 
will  not  withhold  their  help  in  an  emergency. 
Often  both  the  Board  and  the  Mission  can  but 
turn  to  them  with  such  a  plea.  Sometimes  what 
they  think  will  be  a  temporary  mission  becomes 
their  life  task.  It  is  a  blessing  that  men  with  the 
evangelistic  spirit  are  in  our  educational  and  en¬ 
listment  leadership.  So  ought  it  to  be,  for  they, 
too,  have  a  wonderful,  if  indirect,  evangelistic  op¬ 
portunity  and  duty.  The  Mission  justly  pleads 
that  the  two  groups  of  workers  be  kept  adequate 
and  proportionate,  that  it  may  attain  and  maintain 
its  reasonable  standard — a  minimum  of  one  evan¬ 
gelistic  missionary  for  every  million  souls. 


A  Load  of  Empties,  Pernambuco 

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Baron’*  Palace  Used  as  Dormitory,  Rio  College 


Main  Building  of  Rio  College  and  Seminary 


SOUTH  BRAZIL  MISSION 

SUMMARY  OF  NEEDS 

PROPERTY 

Three  Residences  for  Missionaries 
Land,  Buildings  and  Equipment  for  18  Schools 
Land  and  Buildings  for  Four  Churches 
Church  Building  Loan  Fund  for  Entire  Mission 
Carroll  Memorial  Publishing  House 


MISSIONARIES 

Ten  Men  for  Evangelistic  Work 
Five  Men  for  Educational  Work 
Three  Single  Women  for  Educational  Work 
One  Single  Woman  for  Evangelistic  Work 
Total  Number  of  Missionaries  (if  men  are  married),  34 

Equipment  and  Outgoing  Expenses  ($650  per  Missionary)  22,100 

Grand  Total  $  1,071,100 


$  15,000 

746.500 

112.500 
75,000 

100,000—$  1,049,000 


J.  S.  Carroll  Memorial  Publishing  House,  Rio 
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Sugar  Cane  Mill,  South  Brazil 


DESCRIPTION  OF  NEEDS 


UST  after  the  close  of  the  Civil  War 
a  considerable  number  of  people 
from  the  South  emigrated  to  Brazil. 
Among  these  were  some  Baptists, 
notably  Col.  A.  H.  Hawthorne.  Soon 
an  agitation  began  which  had  for  its  purpose  the 
rousing  of  Southern  Baptists  to  mission  efforts  in 
Brazil. 

In  1881,  W.  B.  Bagby  and  wife,  of  Texas, 
landed  in  Brazil,  and  after  a  time  started  a  work 
in  Rio  de  Janeiro,  which  spread  over  the  wide 
territory  of  Southern  Brazil,  and  was  afterwards 
organized  into  the  South  Brazil  Mission. 

Within  the  territory  of  the  South  Brazil  Mission 
are  more  Baptist  churches  and  more  church  mem¬ 
bers  than  in  any  other  of  our  Foreign  Mission 
Fields. 

The  needs  of  this  South  Brazil  Mission  are 
vast: 

RESIDENCES  FOR  MISSIONARIES 

For  Director  of  Boarding  School,  Victoria  $5,000 
For  Evangelistic  Family,  Victoria  5,000 

For  Director  Campos  School  5,000 

As  a  matter  of  economy  it  is  very  important 
that  we  build  houses  for  our  missionaries  in  Bra¬ 
zil.  Rents  are  so  high  that  the  amount  paid  out 
in  rents  in  a  few  years  will  reimburse  us  for  the 
amount  we  would  spend  on  the  erection  of  build¬ 
ings  of  our  own.  For  instance,  the  missionary 
who  will  be  in  charge  of  the  school  at  Victoria 
will  have  to  pay  $840  a  year  rent.  The  amount 
spent  in  six  years  in  rent  would  pay  the  cost  of  a 
residence.  It  is  not  only  economical  from  a 


financial  viewpoint,  but  from  the  viewpoint  of  the 
health  of  the  missionary  that  comfortable  resi¬ 
dences  be  provided  for  these  workers. 


CHURCH  BUILDINGS 

First  Baptist  Church,  Rio  $100,000 

Church  Building,  Nictheroy  2,500 

Church  Building  Loan  Fund  75.000 

To  Buy  Property  in  Paranagua  2,000 

To  Finish  Curityba  Church  8,000 


The  creation  of  a  Church  Building  Loan 
Board  is  the  result  of  much  thinking  and  pray¬ 
ing.  We  see  exceedingly  high  rents  going  out  al¬ 
ways  to  the  ungodly,  when  with  a  proper  organi¬ 
zation  and  help  we  could  use  that  money  to  erect 
and  pay  for  our  own  church  buildings.  If  we 
continue  to  have  poor,  out-of-the-way  houses,  we 
shall  continue  to  be  poor  forever,  for  such  places 
will  continue  to  attract  and  receive  only  the  poor¬ 
er  people.  And  we  are  not  saying  that  we  shall 
not  reach  and  save  them.  We  love  them,  we  love 
them  all,  therefore  we  want  to  extend  our  work 
and  influence  to  all  classes  and  not  limit  ourselves 
to  the  poor. 

Due  to  the  fact  that  a  hill  has  been  removed 
from  the  very  heart  of  the  city  of  Rio,  in  order  to 
fill  in  the  harbor,  a  most  desirable  piece  of  prop¬ 
erty  has  been  put  on  the  market.  Here,  facing  a 
beautiful  park  recently  created,  the  First  Baptist 
Church  has  acquired  a  magnificent  lot.  No  better 
location  can  be  found  in  this  great  city.  In  secur¬ 
ing  this  lot  the  church  used  most  of  the  $50,000 
given  out  of  the  Judson  Centennial.  The  lot 
might  have  been  secured  at  a  lower  rate  if  the 


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First  Baptist  Church,  Sao  Paulo 


church  had  been  willing  to  accept  certain  favors 
from  the  government.  This  it  steadfastly  refused 
to  do  and  manifested  the  true  Baptist  spirit,  even 
though  it  had  to  pay  more  for  the  lot.  Now  it  is 
necessary  to  erect  on  this  lot  a  building  com¬ 
mensurate  with  the  great  plans  of  this  church. 
The  building  proposed  will  be  used  not  only  for  a 
church,  but  also  for  a  great  day  school.  The 
erecton  of  this  building  will  strengthen  our  work 
throughout  Brazil.  The  church  will  supplement 
very  considerably  the  amount  here  requested. 


SCHOOLS 

Rio  Baptist  College  and  Seminary 

Dormitory,  College  $  40  000 

Property  for  Rua  Bispo  School  60,000 

Residences  for  Professors  in  Rua  Bispo 
School  30  000 

Normal  School  Building  100  000 

Open  Air  Gymnasium  15  000 

Dormitory  for  Rua  Bispo  School  60  000 

Remodeling  Baron's  Palace  for  Seminary  70  000 

Second  Dormitory,  College  40  000 

Library  Etiilding  and  Books  55,000 

Science  Building  and  Equipment  50,000 

Victoria  Academy 

Girls’  School  Grounds  and  Dormitory  7.000 

Boys’  School  Grounds  and  Dormitory  7.000 

Land  and  Building  for  Central  School  15.000 

Apparatus  and  Material  6,000 

Residence  for  Director  of  School  5.000 

School  at  Cachoeira  10,000 

Reforming  Buildings  and  Enlarging  Dormi¬ 
tory,  Campos  School  4,000 

Lot  and  Building  for  Girls’  Boarding  Depart¬ 
ment,  Campos  School  18,000 

Furnishing  for  Girls’  Boarding  Department, 

Campos  School  2.000 

Equipment  for  School,  Curityba  500 

Fund  to  Equip  and  Start  Seven  Day  Schools 

in  Santa  Catharina  Field  2.000 

Boys’  School  Building,  Curityba  20  000 

Sao  Paulo  Girls’  School  100  000 

Industrial  School,  Matto  Grosso  10  000 

Boys’  School,  Bello  Horizonte  25,000 


This  educational  program  embraces  the  enlarge¬ 
ment  of  our  secondary  schools  in  Victoria  and 
Campos,  and  the  founding  of  several  other  schools 
of  like  character  in  a  strategic  center  of  each  of 
several  states.  Bello  Horizonte  has  been  chosen 
for  the  center  in  the  great  state  of  Minas;  Curi¬ 
tyba  for  the  state  of  Parana,  and  schools  of  the 
industrial  and  agricultural  type  are  planned  for 
the  vast  states  of  Matto  Grosso  and  Rio  Grande 
do  Sul. 

When  we  think  how  the  woman’s  work  is  lag¬ 
ging  for  lack  of  leadership  among  the  women,  we 
realize  the  great  need  for  a  woman’s  college. 
Some  of  our  students  in  the  Seminary  are  well 
trained,  but  their  wives  cannot  read,  or  can  read 
only  a  little,  and  have  no  training  sufficient  to 
enable  them  to  take  their  places  beside  their  hus¬ 
bands.  And  this  is  a  day  when  we  Baptists  must 
begin  to  move  among  the  very  best  educated  and 
cultured  people  of  the  land.  The  South  Brazil 
Mission  most  heartily  voted  to  ask  the  Board  to 
make  the  Girls’  School  at  Sao  Paulo  a  real 
woman’s  college,  and  at  the  earliest  possible  date. 
They  ask  that  a  grant  of  $100,000  be  made  for 
putting  up  a  great  combination  building  for  the 
institution.  There  is  no  question  as  to  the  great 
and  urgent  necessity  for  such  an  institution  in 
Brazil.  There  is  not  a  single  evangelical  or 
Protestant  woman’s  college  in  all  Brazil!  Female 
education  is  greatly  neglected  in  all  Roman  Cath¬ 
olic  countries  and  there  is  no  provision  made  in 
Brazil  for  the  higher  education  of  women,  except 
in  some  normal  schools,  and  these  are  rare. 

The  five-year  program  of  Rio  Baptist  College 
and  Seminary,  the  threefold  institution  in  the 
great  federal  capital,  calls  for  equipment  which 
in  round  numbers  reaches  the  half-million  mark. 
It  is  not  the  program  of  mere  visionaries,  but  rep¬ 
resents  real  needs  in  substantial  equipment  for  an 
institution  that  by  the  end  of  the  five-year  period 
may  expect  to  have  at  least  a  thousand  students 
enrolled.  Rio  de  Janeiro  represents  one  of  the 
greatest  single  opportunities  in  the  Mission  fields 
of  today.  It  is  the  key  to  the  evangelization  of 
the  vast  republic,  which  is  about  half  the  territory 
and  population  of  South  America.  We  could  not 
lay  out  a  plan  for  this  great  city  of  at  least  a  mil¬ 
lion  inhabitants,  with  its  arteries  of  communica¬ 
tion  connecting  it  with  the  utmost  limits,  com¬ 
mercially,  politically  and  socially  of  the  republic, 
on  a  smaller  basis.  There  was  never  such  an 
hour  of  opportunity  in  Rio  as  the  present.  With 
the  enlarged  sympathies  for  all  things  American, 
with  the  adoption  of  the  system  of  the  United 
States  Navy  in  the  Brazilian  Navy,  the  North 
American  system  of  education  in  the  Brazilian 
schools,  and  like  changes  in  many  other  phases 
of  social  activity  and  organization,  we  could  not 
wish  for  a  more  opportune  time  to  launch  a 


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Mounted  for  a  Missionary  Trip 


greater  enterprise  in  education  than  any  hereto¬ 
fore  undertaken.  We  have  an  institution  which  is 
already  known  widely  over  Brazil  and  highly  con¬ 
sidered  by  the  population  of  Rio.  It  has  been 
classed  in  a  category  with  the  two  leading  institu¬ 
tions  of  the  Brazilian  Government,  in  Rio  de  Ja¬ 
neiro.  With  this  beginning  we  should  go  on  up 
easily  to  the  first  place  in  Brazilian  education,  es¬ 
pecially  in  the  federal  capital.  At  present  we 
have  over  four  hundred  students  and  pupils  under 
the  care  of  more  than  thirty  teachers. 

In  1923  we  should  have  the  Seminary  building. 
This  department  will  have  seventy-five  students 
approximately  near  the  end  of  the  five-year  period 
and  ought  to  be  given  a  building  to  itself.  In  all 
our  plans  we  wish  to  give  the  training  of  the 
ministry  the  place  of  greatest  honor.  The  crown¬ 
ing  site  of  the  campus  is  the  one  occupied  at 
present  by  the  Palace  of  the  Baron,  which  can 
be  remodeled  for  the  use  of  the  Seminary. 

Dr.  Shepard,  President  of  Rio  College  and 
Seminary,  says: 

“I  believe  that  our  educational  work  will  be 
put  on  such  a  basis  that  in  five  years  after  the  last 
building  for  schools  herein  projected,  is  finished 
there  will  be  no  need  of  our  Foreign  Mission 
Board  sending  more  missionaries  to  Brazil.  The 
prepared  native  workers  by  that  time  will  be  so 
great  that  it  will  be  unnecessary  to  send  more 
men.  The  possibilities  of  the  near  future  are  so 
great  that  one  is  almost  overwhelmed  with  joy 
and  the  responsibility  of  the  present  hour.” 

CARROLL  MEMORIAL  PUBLISHING  HOUSE,  RIO 
Machinery,  Tvpe  and  Working  Material 

($5,000  a  year)  $25  000 

For  Houses  for  Missionaries,  Houses  for 
Workmen,  Chapel  and  School  to  be  Built  on 
Property  Owned  by  Publishing  House  20  000 

For  Colporters  and  Bible  Work  (including 
traveling  expenses)  15.000 

Literature  and  Publications  40.000 


With  ihe  acquisition  ol  the  excellent  property 
through  the  gift  of  Mrs.  J.  S.  Carroll  for  our  Bra¬ 
zilian  Publishing  House,  a  great  step  forward 
was  made,  but  the  property  without  the  necessary 
working  tools  can  add  but  little  to  our  efficiency. 
At  the  present  time  we  are  greatly  handicapped 
by  the  aforesaid  lack.  The  fact  is,  that  beside 
the  two  new  linotype  machines,  all  of  our  other 
machinery  and  type  has  been  in  use  since  1900. 
You  can  imagine  in  what  state  it  all  is  at  the  pres¬ 
ent  time.  Then,  also,  for  the  house  to  be  able  to 
satisfy  all  the  needs  of  the  work  in  all  of  its 
departments:  Church  work,  Sunday  schools,  B.  Y. 
P.  U.  work,  colleges,  seminaries,  we  urgently  need 
complete  outfits  for  bookbinding,  lithography, 
ruling,  stereotyping,  etc.  We  are  also  convinced 
of  the  urgent  need  of  a  good  business  center  in 
the  heart  of  the  city,  a  house  large  enough  to  ac¬ 
commodate  an  adequate  shop,  offices,  storerooms, 
as  well  as  a  good  assembly  hall,  a  real  Baptist 
center  for  the  great  capital  of  Rio  as  well  as  for 
all  the  Baptists  in  Brazil.  We  need  badly  ade¬ 
quate  buildings  for  the  different  departments,  to 
be  erected  on  the  property  we  already  own,  as 
well  as  houses  for  the  missionaries  connected  with 
the  Publishing  House  and  houses  for  workmen. 

NEW  MISSIONARIES 

Man  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Florianopolis 
Man  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Santa  Maria  Section, 
Rio  Grande  do  Sul 

Single  Woman  for  Boarding  Department,  Campos 
School 

Man  for  Educational  Work,  Curityba 
Man  for  Evangelistic  W'ork,  Matto  Grosso  Field 
Man  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Northern  Section,  Minas 
Geraes  Field 

Man  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Cruz  Alta  Section,  Rio 
Grande  do  Sul 

Man  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Campinas 
Single  Woman  for  Victoria  Academy 
Man  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Southern  Section,  Minas 
Geraes  Field 

Man  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Braz,  Minas  Geraes  Field 
Man  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Western  Section,  Minas 
Geraes  Field 

Man  for  Educational  W'ork,  Florianopolis 
Man  for  Rio  College  and  Seminary 
Kindergartner  for  Rio  College  and  Seminary 
Second  Man  for  Rio  College  and  Seminary 
Single  Woman  for  Evangelistic  Work  Among 
Women,  Rio 

Man  for  Victoria  Academy 

Man  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Sao  Paulo 

“We  need  and  shall  continue  to  need  more 
workers.  In  all  of  the  fields  we  shall  need  more 
workers,  educational  and  evangelistic.  Our  ap¬ 
peal  for  workers  is  the  lowest  possible  for  the 
five  years.  We  are  doing  more  than  we  can  do; 
that  is,  we  are  trying  to  do  all  and  are  doing  noth¬ 
ing  well.  It  is  literally  true  that  each  man  is  so 
busy  that  we  cannot  get  together  and  plan  wisely 
for  the  whole  task  and  even  if  we  plan  there  is  no 
one  to  carry  out  the  plans.” 


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A  Country  Horae  in  Chile  A  Chilean  Bakery 


CHILIAN  MISSION 


PROPERTY 


NEEDS 


Bible  Training  School,  Santiago  $ 

Girls’  School,  Temuco 
Church  Building  Loan  Fund 
Residences,  Two  Missionaries 


20,000 

20,000 

5,000 

10,000—$  55,000 


MISSIONARIES 

Man  for  Bihle  Training  School 

Man  for  Evangelistic  Work 

Two  Single  Women  for  Girls’  School 

3,900 

$  58,900 


Total  Number  of  Missionaries  (if  men  are  married),  6 
Equipment  and  Outgoing  Expenses  ($650  per  Missionary) 

Grand  Total 


DESCRIPTION  OF  NEEDS 


HE  first  need  of  our  Chilian  Mission 
is  more  preachers.  We  need  more 
foreign  missionaries  and  more  native 
preachers.  Although  Rev.  W.  D.  T. 
MacDonald  has  for  many  years 
worked  successfully  in  Chile,  and  has  built  up 
twelve  churches,  with  a  membership  of  about 
1,500,  we  are  still  in  the  pioneer  period.  We  have 
some  native  preachers,  but  they  are  poorly  trained. 
We  must  at  once  develop  plans  for  the  training 
of  others.  Hence  the  absolute  necessity  of  the 
Bible  Training  School  at  Santiago.  This  Train¬ 
ing  School  will  provide  at  first  not  only  Bihle 
training,  but  literary  training.  Gradually  there 
will  be  built  up  a  boarding  school  for  boys  and 


men  which  will  furnish  competent  leaders. 

Along  with  the  training  of  preachers  and  lay¬ 
men  for  our  work  must  go  the  training  of  the 
girls.  It  has  been  decided  to  locate  the  Girls’ 
School  at  Temuco,  which  is  the  center  of  our 
present  Baptist  work.  There  are  several  hun¬ 
dred  girls  in  our  Baptist  families,  and  we  esti¬ 
mate  that  sixty  of  these  would  be  gathered  into 
the  school  during  the  first  year. 

The  churches  already  organized  are  in  des¬ 
perate  need  of  buildings  in  which  to  worship.  A 
modest  Building  Loan  Fund  would  greatly  en¬ 
courage  them  and  make  possible  the  acquisition 
of  a  number  of  building  lots,  as  well  as  the  erec¬ 
tion  of  several  church  buildings. 


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O  N  G  O  Iv 


NE  person  out  of  every  four  in  the 
world  is  Chinese.  Multiply  all  the 
people  in  the  United  States  by  four 
and  place  them  east  of  a  line  drawn 
north  and  south  through  Kansas  City 
and  you  will  have  a  fair  understanding  of  the 
immensity  and  density  of  the  population  of  China. 

Our  work  is  splendidly  placed  in  four  vital 
areas  of  the  Chinese  Republic.  The  North  China 
Mission  is  located  in  Shantung  Province,  which 
has  recently  been  so  widely  discussed  in  connec¬ 
tion  with  the  Peace  Treaty.  This  widespread  dis¬ 
cussion  shows  the  importance  of  this  section  of 
china.  The  Central  China  Mission  is  located  in 
the  region  of  Shanghai,  which  city  is,  in  many 
respects,  the  leading  city  in  China.  The  Interior 
China  Mission  lies  chiefly  in  Honan  Province, 
which  great  section  is  becoming  the  crossroads  to 
trade.  It  is  located  in  the  midst  of  a  vast  popula¬ 


tion.  The  South  China  Mission,  which  was  the 
first  opened  by  our  Board,  lies  in  Kwong  Tung 
and  Kwong  Si  Provinces,  in  the  far  south.  The 
main  center  is  Canton,  which  is  one  of  the  great 
cities  of  the  world.  From  this  southern  region  go 
forth  practically  all  Chinese  emigrants.  In  the 
southernmost  part  of  Kwong  Tung  Province  is 
located  our  newest  Mission,  with  headquarters  in 
the  city  of  Pakhoi.  We  are  well  placed  for  tak¬ 
ing  part  in  the  great  advance  toward  which  the 
marvelous  opportunities  of  China  beckon. 

Southern  Baptists  began  work  in  China  in  1845 
by  the  appointment  of  J.  L.  Shuck,  of  Virginia, 
who  had  gone  out  to  China  ten  years  before  under 
the  appointment  of  the  Triennial)  Convention. 
Three  lives  almost  span  the  history  of  Southern 
Baptist  work  in  China.  Mathew  T.  Yates,  Shang¬ 
hai,  1846-1888;  R.  H.  Graves,  Canton,  1856-1912; 
J.  B.  Hartwell,  Hwanghien,  1864-1912. 


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CENTRAL  CHINA  MISSION 


SUMMARY  OF  NEEDS 


NEW  PROPERTY 


Nineteen  Residences  for  Missionaries 

$  83,500 

Land,  Buildings  and  Equipment,  8  Churches 

49,200 

Land,  Buildings  and  Equipment,  19  Schools 

494,400 

Church  Building  Loan  Fund 

25,000 

Miscellaneous 

31,200 

New  Stations 

61,000—$ 

744,300 


NEW  MISSIONARIES 

Five  Men  for  Evangelistic  Work 

Three  Single  Women  for  Evangelistic  Work 

Nine  Men  for  Educational  Work 

Seven  Single  Women  for  Educational  W  ork 

Three  Men  Physicians 

One  WYman  Physician 

Three  Trained  Nurses 

One  Architect  and  Builder 

Total  Missionaries  (if  men  are  married),  50 

Equipment  and  Outgoing  Expenses  ($550  per  Missionary)  32,500 


Grand  Total 


$  776,800 


Eliza  Yates  Girls’  School,  Shanghai 

DESCRIPTION  OF  NEEDS 


HE  Central  China  Mission  is  located 
in  the  Kiangsu  Province,  with  four 
main  stations — Shanghai,  Soochow, 
Chinkiang  and  Yangchow.  The  three 
first-named  compose  the  famous 
“\ates  Triangle.”  For  a  long  time  the  Mission 
was  spoken  of  as  the  “Yates  Mission.”  Dr.  Mat¬ 
thew  T.  Yates  served  in  this  Mission  about  forty- 
one  years.  He  entered  the  field  in  1847.  After 
the  following  list  of  needs  of  the  Central  China 
Mission  was  made  out,  a  cablegram  came  from  the 
Mission  urging  that  several  hundred  thousand  dol¬ 
lars  more  be  added  for  other  objects,  but  the  re¬ 
quest  could  not  be  granted. 

SOOCHOW 

Land  and  Residence  for  Missionary  $  5,500 

Building  for  Bing  Hwo  Jao  Church  5,500 

Land  and  Building  for  East  Gate  Chapel  2,000 
Motor  Launch  1,600 

Land  and  Buildings  for  We  Ling  Day  School  8,000 
Five  Primary  Schools — Land  and  Buildings  40,000 
Land  and  Primary  School  Buildings,  Bing 

Hwo  Jao  8,500 

Land  and  Buildings  for  Chapel  and  School, 

West  District  2,000 

Land  and  Buildings  for  We  Ling  Girls'  School  18,000 
Development  of  Yates  Academy  18.000 

Yates  Academy,  which  had  its  beginning  in  a 
little  outhouse  in  Missionary  McDaniel’s  yard  in 
1905,  has  gradually  developed  into  an  institution 
worthy  of  its  name.  Boys  graduating  from  this 
school  are  able  to  enter  any  of  the  colleges  in 
China.  It  now  has  sixty-eight  graduates.  We  are 
anxious  to  complete  the  equipment  of  this  school 
in  order  that  the  missionaries  in  charge  may  de¬ 
vote  their  best  thought  and  strength  to  the  real 
work  of  the  school  rather  than  so  much  to  the 
property  and  equipment  questions.  We  are  too 
near  to  having  a  good  plant  to  wait  ten  years  for 
its  completion. 

Another  important  institution  at  Soochow  is  the 
We  Ling  Girls’  School.  This  school  is  to  be  de¬ 
veloped  into  a  high  school  for  girls  and  needs  the 


additional  equipment  requested.  Good  success 
has  attended  the  efforts  put  forth  in  this  school 
and  the  future  for  it  is  very  bright. 

The  five  primary  school  buildings  requested 
will  not  only  be  used  for  primary  school  work, 
but  will  also  be  used  as  chapels  for  evangelistic 
effort.  These  buildings  will  furnish  excellent 
facilities  for  reaching  the  vast  population  in  the 
districts  around  Soochow. 

The  residences  for  missionaries  and  buildings 
requested  for  the  churches  of  Soochow  should  by 
all  means  be  provided  without  delay. 


CHINKIANG 

Residence  for  Evangelistic  Missionary  $  4.800 

Church  Building  12,000 

Land  for  Enlargement  of  Church  3,200 

Land  and  Church  Building  for  Second  Baptist 
Church  4.000 

Equipment  for  Outstations  8.000 

Boys'  School  (with  Industrial  Features)  18.000 

Girls’  School  8,500 

Improvement  of  Bihle  School  Campus  4.000 

Property  South  and  West  of  Church  8,500 

Dormitory,  Class  Rooms  and  Furniture  for 

Bihle  School  10.000 

Two  Residences  for  Foreign  Teachers  in  Bible 

School  8.000 

Woman's  Evangelistic  School  and  Settlement  20  000 


Maypole  Drill,  Eliza  Yates  School,  Shanghai 


We  Ling  Girls’  School,  Soochow 


One  of  the  great  needs  of  Chinkiang  is  ade¬ 
quate  buildings  for  the  First  Baptist  Church. 
With  Sunday  school  facilities,  Chinese  pastor’s 
quarters,  reading  room,  day  and  night  schools  for 
boys  and  girls,  a  better  opportunity  for  far-reach¬ 
ing  service  cannot  be  found.  The  land  and  build¬ 
ings  for  the  Second  Baptist  Church  are  hardly  less 
urgent. 

There  are  eight  outstations  in  the  Chinkiang 
field.  A  number  of  these  are  churchless  without 
home  for  pastor  or  room  for  school  work.  As¬ 
sistance  given  towards  providing  equipment  for 
these  outstations  would  stimulate  the  spirit  and 
greatly  encourage  the  people. 

It  has  been  decided  to  have  in  Chinkiang  a 
school  taught  in  the  Mandarin  dialect.  The  other 
schools  in  the  Central  China  Mission  are  taught 
in  the  Shanghai  dialect.  The  Mandarin-speaking 
section  is  large  and  we  must  have  a  school.  The 
school  will  probably  be  located  at  Chinkiang.  It 
will  be  started  as  a  primary  school  and  worked 
up  to  a  school  of  middle  grade,  probably  with 
industrial  features. 

One  of  the  greatest  needs  of  the  Chinkiang  sta¬ 
tion  is  equipment  for  the  Bible  School.  This 
school  is  not  an  institution  of  the  full-fledged  theo¬ 
logical  seminary  grade,  but  attempts  to  give  a 
Biblical  training  for  ministers  and  colporters, 
who  cannot  take  the  full  training.  It  has  already 
done  good  work  under  very  difficult  conditions. 
The  students  have  to  sit  on  narrow  backless 
benches,  on  dirt  floors,  without  fire  in  the  winter 
and  without  comforts  at  any  time.  The  sleeping 
quarters  are  crowded  and  the  recitation  rooms  are 
only  makeshifts. 


YANGCHOW 

Residence  for  Evangelistic  Missionary  $  4,800 

Land  and  Church  Building  12,000 

Motor  Launch  1.600 

Girls’  Boarding  School  25,000 

Ing  Si  Gai  Day  School  13,500 

Shien  Leong  Gai  Day  School  18.000 

Boys’  Boarding  School  25.000 


Residences  for  Two  Educational  Missionaries  8,000 

The  Girls’  School  at  Yangchow  is  very  much 
overcrowded.  Nineteen  girls  sleep  in  one  small 
dormitory  room.  The  present  building  is  in  a 
bad  condition.  A  number  of  the  girls  are  in  a 


temporary  building,  and  yet  this  is  the  only  mid¬ 
dle  school  we  have  for  girls  in  the  Mandarin 
section.  Four  of  the  teachers  are  orphans,  edu¬ 
cated  by  this  school.  They  receive  only  $6  per 
month  salary,  while  other  teachers  as  well  pre¬ 
pared  cannot  be  secured  for  less  than  $20  per 
month.  We  ought  to  match  the  spirit  of  these 
orphan  girls,  and  at  the  same  time  remember  the 
sacrificial  work  done  by  Miss  Mackenzie  in  con¬ 
nection  with  this  girls’  school. 

The  Boys’  Boarding  School,  Yangchow,  is  in  as 
urgent  need  of  buildings  and  equipment  as  is  the 
girls’  school.  It  is  impossible  to  conduct  the 
boys’  school  successfully  without  providing  it  with 
the  proper  facilities. 

It  is  the  purpose  in  Yangchow  to  develop  some 
other  strong  day  schools.  The  material  that  can 
be  gathered  in  such  schools  is  practically  limit¬ 
less,  and  the  evangelistic  phase  of  this  work  is  of 
the  utmost  importance  and  significance. 

SHANGHAI 

Eliza  Yates  Memorial  Girls’  School  $50,000 

Normal  Training  School  50,000 

Extension  of  Ming  Jang  Boys’  School  33,500 

The  Eliza  Yates  Girls’  School.  Shanghai,  was 
started  by  Miss  Lottie  Price,  in  1897,  in  Dr. 
Bryan’s  barn,  with  five  pupils.  It  has  grown  until 
it  now  enrolls  162  pupils.  It  has  one  very  good 
building,  but  this  building  is  not  sufficient  for  its 
growing  usefulness.  The  Mission  proposes  to 
develop  this  school  into  a  college  for  young 
women,  and  the  amount  requested  for  this  future 
development  is  very  modest  indeed,  when  we 
take  into  consideration  the  sphere  this  school  as 
a  college  for  women  will  occupy.  It  is  a  signifi¬ 
cant  institution. 

In  connection  with  the  Eliza  Yates  School  will 
be  developed  a  normal  school  for  the  training  of 
teachers.  The  primary  schools  are  suffering  from 
lack  of  a  sufficient  number  of  teachers,  and  their 
inability  when  secured  for  this  work.  Each  main 
station  and  many  outposts  are  begging  for  kinder- 
gartners  for  work  among  the  children.  At 
present  we  are  using,  in  the  few  more  favored 
places,  the  cast  off  teacher  material  from  other  de¬ 
nominations.  We  are  begging  for  funds  to  in¬ 
crease,  through  our  schools,  our  opportunity  to 
put  young  China  into  the  way  of  salvation.  We 
are  already  behind  other  denominations  and  the 
Chinese  Government  in  the  standard  of  our  school 
work.  Our  present  staff  of  native  teachers  is  both 
inadequate  and  unfit  for  the  demands  of  the 
work.  It  is  very  important  that  another  teacher 
for  the  development  of  this  normal  school  be  sent 
out  at  once. 

As  the  Eliza  Yates  School,  with  its  normal 
department,  on  the  present  compound  in  Shang¬ 
hai  is  developed,  it  is  quite  likely  that  the  Ming 
Jang  Boys’  School  will  have  to  be  moved  to  othes 


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quarters,  or  at  least  a  considerable  readjustment 
in  buildings  must  be  made.  This  Ming  Jang 
Boys’  School  has  developed  with  great  rapidity 
and  has  made  a  splendid  record  for  itself. 
It  will  perform  a  great  service  for  the  Mission 
if  properly  equipped. 

SHANGHAI  BAPTIST  COLLEGE  AND  SEMINARY 


Seven  Residences  at  $5,200  $36,400 

Five  Residences  at  $3,200  16,000 

To  Remodel  Nortli  Dormitory  for  Six  Families  800 
Two  Academy  Dormitories,  Class  Rooms  for 

300  Students  48,000 

One  Primary  Building  8,000 

Library  40,000 

Chapel  32,000 

Land  Raising  32,000 

Yangtsepoo  Social  Center  12,800 

Water  and  Light  Plant  12,800 

Workshop  and  Laundry  4,000 

Science  Apparatus  16,000 

Books  and  Library  Equipment  16,000 

Equipment  for  Various  Departments  12,000 


Shanghai  Baptist  College  and  Seminary,  lo¬ 
cated  in  Shanghai,  is  supported  by  both  Northern 
and  Southern  Baptists.  It  is  the  purpose  to  make 
this  a  high-grade  college  and  theological  semi¬ 
nary,  which  will  serve  all  China  for  higher  train¬ 
ing.  Baptists  should  have  one  such  high-grade 
institution  in  China.  We  regret  to  say  that  South¬ 
ern  Baptists  are  far  behind  Northern  Baptists  in 
their  support  of  this  institution.  Two  hundred 
and  seventy-one  thousand  six  hundred  dollars  has 
already  been  spent  upon  securing  land  and  equip¬ 
ment.  Of  this  amount  Northern  Baptists  have 
spent  $191,100,  which  is  $110,600  more  than  the 
$80,500  Southern  Baptists  have  given.  For  addi¬ 
tional  building  and  equipment  there  is  needed 
$286,800.  In  order  to  bring  our  part  up  to 
that  given  by  Northern  Baptists  we  should  pro¬ 
vide  $198,000  toward  the  amounts  itemized 
above. 

EXTENSION 

Church  Building  Loan  Fund  for  Mission  $25,000 
Equipment  New  Station,  Wusih  44.200 

Opening  New  Station,  Rugao  16,800 

Wusih  is  an  enterprising  city  of  200,000  in¬ 
habitants.  It  is  the  center  of  a  thickly  populated 
unevangelized  territory.  It  is  one  of  the  largest 
rice  and  cocoon  markets  in  China.  There  is  a 
unique  opportunity  for  Baptist  work  here.  We 
are  already  doing  an  extensive  outstation  work 
around  Wusih  and  should  take  hold  of  this  new 
field  in  a  vigorous  way  by  locating  missionaries 
on  the  ground  and  providing  equipment. 

The  Central  China  Mission  has  been  for  many 
years  eager  to  occupy  territory  around  Rugao  City, 
east  of  Yangchow.  Rugao  is  a  city  of  100,000,  in 
a  splendid  country.  There  are  eighteen  market 
towns  in  this  section.  It  is  in  a  center  of  a  thou¬ 
sand  square  miles  containing  5,500,000  people. 


In  four  adjoining  counties  we  have  work  already. 
Th  is  field  oilers  a  great  opportunity  for  evan¬ 
gelistic,  school  and  hospital  work,  where  we  were 
pioneers  and  where  we  have  five  small  churches. 
In  these  five  counties  we  ought  to  reach  with  the 
Gospel  great  hosts  of  people. 

The  call  for  the  Church  Building  Loan  Fund 
for  the  Central  China  Mission  has  in  it  the  same 
urgency  and  the  same  reasons  for  the  establish¬ 
ment  of  such  a  fund,  as  in  the  other  Missions. 
This  method  of  encouraging  the  churches  to  help 
themselves  has  proved  to  be  very  effective. 

NEW  MISSIONARIES 

Man  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Soochow 
Single  Woman  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Soochow 
Family  for  Educational  Work  in  Yates  Academy, 
Soochow 

Single  Woman  for  We  Ling  Academy,  Soochow 
Man  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Chinkiang 
Single  Woman  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Chinkiang 
Man  for  Educational  Work,  Chinkiang 
Single  Woman  for  Educational  Work,  Chinkiang 
Man  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Yangchow 
Single  Woman  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Yangchow 
Man  Doctor,  Yangchow 
Three  Trained  Nurses,  Yangchow 
Woman  Doctor,  Yangchow 
Specialist  for  Ear,  Eye  and  Throat,  Yangchow 
Two  Men  for  Educational  Work,  Yangchow 
Single  Woman  for  Girls’  Academy,  Yangchow 
Single  Woman  for  Ing  Si  Gai  Girls’  School,  Yang¬ 
chow 

Man  for  Evangelistic  Work,  North  Gate,  Shanghai 
Single  Woman  for  Educational  Work,  Cantonese 
School,  Shanghai 

Single  Woman  for  Normal  School,  Shanghai 
Second  Woman  for  Normal  School,  Shanghai 
Man  for  Educational  Work,  Ming  Jang  Boys’  School, 
Shanghai 

Man  for  Chair  of  Physics,  Shanghai  College  and 
Seminary 

Man  for  Biology  and  Geology,  Shanghai  College  and 
Seminary 

Man  for  English,  Shanghai  College  and  Seminary 
Man  for  Education,  Shanghai  College  and  Seminary 
Man  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Wusih 
Doctor,  Rugao 

Architect  and  Builder  for  the  Mission 

In  all  our  surveys  we  deal  with  the  many 
phases  of  Mission  work.  It  would  be  well  for  us 
to  keep  in  mind  constantly  the  main  purpose  of 
missionary  effort.  The  purpose  is  expressed  well 
in  the  following  words  of  Dr.  R.  T.  Bryan: 

“We  come  to  China  to  evangelize — that  is 
to  win  souls  for  Christ  and  to  train  them  for 
efficient  service.  In  other  words,  we  come  to 
establish  self-supporting,  self-controlling,  self- 
propagating  churches.  Any  work  that  does  not 
either  directly  or  indirectly  assist  evangelism  has 
no  part  in  our  program.  In  a  broad  sense,  then, 
all  of  our  work  is  evangelistic.  School  work  is 
school  evangelism;  medical  work  is  medical  evan¬ 
gelism;  literary  work  is  literary  evangelism.  And 
so  on  with  all  that  we  ought  to  do.” 


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Hospital,  Chengchow 


Kaifeng  Baptist  College  Dormitory 


INTERIOR  CHINA  MISSION 


SUMMARY  OF  NEEDS 


NEW  PROPERTY 

Thirty-two  Residences  for  Missionaries  $  132,350 

Land,  Buildings  and  Equipment  for  Thirteen  Schools  262,975 
Land,  Buildings  and  Equipment  for  Six  Churches  59,000 

Land,  Buildings  and  Equipment  for  Three  Hospitals  20,850 

Miscellaneous  10,350 

Church  Building  Loan  Fund  10,000 — $ 


495,525 


NEW  MISSIONARIES 

Nineteen  Men  for  Evangelistic  Work 
Two  Single  Women  for  Evangelistic  Work 
Five  Men  for  Educational  Work 
Six  Single  Women  for  Educational  Work 
Four  Men  Physicians 
One  Woman  Physician 

One  Trained  Nurse  i 

Total  Number  of  New  Missionaries  (if  men  are  married),  66 

Equipment,  Outgoing  Expenses  ($650  per  missionary)  42,900 


Grand  Total 


$  538,425 


DESCRIPTION  OE  NEEDS 


HE  Interior  China  Mission  is  located 
in  the  populous  province  of  Honan 
and  a  portion  of  the  province  of 
Anhwei.  The  work  radiates  from  four 
great  centers:  Kaifeng,  the  capital; 
Chengchow,  Kweiteh.  and  Pochow.  The  mission 
was  founded  in  1904,  and  being  comparatively 
new,  it  is  in  great  need  of  much  equipment. 


KAIFENG 

City  Compound  Equipment 
Girls’  School  Building 
Residence  for  Single  Women 
Women’s  Industrial  Building 
Tsao  Men  School 

Second  Dormitory  for  Girls’  School 
Brick  Wall  around  Girls’  School 
Kindergarten  Equipment 
New  Residences 
Land  for  Residences 
Kaifeng  Baptist  College 


Land 

$10,000 

Recitation  Building 

18000 

Primary  Building 

10.000 

Light  and  Power  Plant 

12.000 

Industrial  Building 

15.000 

Dormitories  3  and  4 

25.000 

Agricultural  Department 

15.000 

Science  Hall 

30  000 

Residences  4,  5,  6 
Administration  Building 

12,000 

and  Library 

50  000 

$30  000 
10  000 
4  000 
10  000 
10  000 

8.500 

2.500 
850 

32.000 

2.500 


197.000 


For  ten  years  we  have  been  working  in  the 
great  capital  city  of  Kaifeng,  a  city  such  as  would 
have  appealed  to  the  Apostle  Paul  because  of  its 
strategical  importance  as  the  political,  educa¬ 
tional  and  business  center  of  one  of  China’s  great¬ 
est  provinces,  with  thousands  of  officials,  students 
and  soldiers  who  gather  here  from  all  parts  of 
the  province,  and  later  scatter  to  all  parts  of  this 
great  land,  and  with  its  tens  of  thousands  of 
merchants,  artisans  and  coolies.  What  an  oppor¬ 
tunity  to  preach  the  Gospel  of  Salvation!  And 
we  have  the  finest  location  in  the  city,  a  splendid 
lot  one  hundred  feet  front,  on  one  of  the  very 
best  streets  in  the  heart  of  the  city,  and  350  feet 
deep,  reaching  through  to  the  next  street.  Past 
the  front  door  more  than  thirty  thousand  people 
go  every  day.  The  equipment  of  this  City  Mission 
plant  can  be  delayed  no  longer. 

At  present  there  is  no  high  school  for  girls  in 
the  province  and  proper  equipment  will  give  ours 
at  Kaifeng  the  chance  to  become  the  first,  largest 
and  best  high  school  in  the  province.  Then  also 
there  is  the  very  important  consideration  of  pro¬ 
viding  high  school  and  normal  training  for  the 
girls  of  our  ever-increasing  Christian  constituency 
in  our  four  stations.  If  it  were  just  for  one  sta¬ 
tion,  such  a  large  plan  would  not  be  desirable, 
but  for  the  whole  mission  it  seems  imperative. 


Our  idea  in  industrial  school  work  is  not  merely 
that  of  providing  industrial  training  for  the  Chi¬ 
nese  per  se.  Il  is  rather  a  means  to  an  end.  It 
might  have  been  better  if  we  had  called  it  a  de¬ 
partment  of  “self-help.”  If  they  could  be  taught 
a  trade  during  the  first  three  years  they  are  in 
school,  by  which  they  could  maintain  themselves 
during  the  next  four  or  eight  years  they  are  in 
school,  the  number  of  boys  we  could  help  would 
be  greatly  increased.  By  teaching  them  to  work 
we  would  both  save  their  self-respect  and  help  to 
make  real  men  of  them.  Again,  the  educative 
value  of  industrial  work,  when  properly  carried 
on,  is  in  itself  most  valuable. 

We  now  have  a  beautiful  twelve-acre  tract  of 
land  for  our  Kaifeng  Baptist  College  campus, 
and  we  hope  soon  to  add  to  this  another  eight 
acres.  On  this  we  have  erected  a  large  dormi¬ 
tory,  a  residence,  and  a  chapel,  together  with 
several  smaller  buildings.  These  buildings  are 
well  built.  The  school  is  strategically  located  in 
one  of  the  greatest  provinces  of  China,  with  a 
population  estimated  at  thirty-five  millions.  In 
the  whole  province  there  are  only  three  other 
Christian  schools  of  the  same  standard  as  ours, 
and  they  have  all  been  started  within  the  last 
few  years.  In  no  other  center  in  China  have  the 
Baptists  a  like  opportunity  to  get  in  on  the  ground 
floor,  and  by  the  building  of  a  great  Christian 
school,  help  to  win  a  province  for  Christ. 


CHENGCHOW 

Residence  for  Doctor  $  4.000 

Residence  for  School  Man  4.000 

Hospital,  Woman’s  Department  6.500 

Hospital  Equipment  3.500 

Six  Residences  for  Evangelistic  Missionaries  25.000 
Woman’s  School  Residence  4  000 

Land  Required  for  Development  5  000 

Residence  for  Second  Doctor  4000 

Houses  for  Chinese  Hospital  Helpers  850 

Residence  for  Kindergarten  Teacher  4  000 

Kindergarten  Building  1.700 

Repairs  on  Lawton  House  850 

Two  Residences  for  Chinese  Teachers,  Girls’ 

School  850 

Chapel  for  Mohammedan  Work  4  000 

Land  and  Building  for  Institutional  Work  12.500 
Boys’  School  Building  4.000 

Repairing  House  for  Teachers  425 


Scarcely  less  important  than  the  capital  city  is 
Chengchow,  due  to  the  fact  that  it  is  located  at  the 
junction  of  the  Peking-Hankow  railway.  With  the 
railway  running  east  and  west,  Chengchow  is  a 
city  of  marked  importance.  Since  the  coming  of 
the  railway  it  has  grown  marvelously  and  presents 
a  unique  opportunity  for  successful  mission  effort. 

The  new  missionaries  called  for  and  the 
church  building  projects  enumerated  are  decidedly 
urgent.  At  Chengchow  is  located  our  one  hos- 


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pital  in  the  Interior  China  Mission.  Dr.  Louthan 
and  the  Mission  have  been  calling  for  reinforce¬ 
ments  and  for  additional  buildings  for  many 
years.  The  present  hospital  ought  to  be  equipped 
and  a  woman’s  department  ought  by  all  means 
to  be  added  right  away.  This  need  should  not 
longer  be  denied. 


POCHOW 

Academy  f  9,400 

Residence  for  Missionary  4.000 

Hospital  10  000 

Additional  Land  for  Girls’  School  1  000 

Four  Residences  for  Evangelistic  Missionaries  16  000 

Land  and  Enlarging  Church  3,500 

Residence  for  Doctor  4  000 

Residence  for  Single  Woman  4,000 

Farm  for  Industrial  Work  6,500 

Equipment  for  Dairy,  Farm,  Carpenter  Shop  1,700 
Automobile  850 

Place  for  City  Work  4,000 

Additional  Land  for  Boys’  School  1,700 


About  ten  years  ago  our  Board  took  over  from 
the  Gospel  Mission  the  Pochow  field,  with  the 
hope  of  providing  more  effectively  for  the  work 
there  than  the  Gospel  Mission  had  been  able  to 
do.  Pochow  is  the  largest  city  in  the  Anhwei 
province,  and  with  the  surrounding  counties,  has 
a  population  of  some  three  or  four  million  in¬ 
habitants.  Still  that  great  field  remains  as  it  was 
when  we  took  it  over  from  the  Gospel  Mission  ten 
years  ago.  Only  one  new  worker  has  been  added. 
They  are  still  without  any  trained  native  assist¬ 
ants,  and  there  is  scarcely  any  hope  of  getting  any. 

The  Bostick  brethren  have  been  laboring  a  long 
time  in  Pochow  with  very  meager  equipment. 
Their  work  has  been  attended  with  remarkable 
success.  The  modest  requests  here  made  for  addi¬ 
tional  equipment  should  certainly  not  be  refused. 
For  the  protection  of  the  health  of  these  mis¬ 
sionaries  a  doctor  should  be  sent  to  Pochow,  even 
though  we  leave  out  of  consideration  the  vast 
good  he  might  do  in  relieving  the  suffering  of  the 
Chinese  in  that  densely  populated  region.  The 
new  doctor  should,  of  course,  be  given  a  hos¬ 
pital.  It  is  possible  that  the  local  contribution 
towards  this  hospital  would  be  very  considerable. 

There  has  been  developed  at  Pochow  a  very 
interesting  industrial  school  work,  the  efficiency  of 
which  would  be  greatly  increased  by  the  small 
amount  of  equipment  requested.  The  equipment 
needed  for  the  development  of  the  evangelistic 
side  of  the  work  in  Pochow  is  very  urgent. 
The  missionaries,  church  buildings  and  the  auto¬ 
mobile  which  have  been  requested  should  by  all 
means  be  provided  without  delay.  The  Pochow 
field  will  yield  great  evangelistic  returns. 

KWEITEH 

Adjoining  Property  East  of  Compound  $  2,000 

Building  on  Property  850 

Rebuilding  Church  5,000 


New  Premises  Inside  of  City  1,250 

Land  and  Residences  for  Two  New  Mis¬ 
sionaries  8,000 

Hsia  I  Hsien  New  Station  1,250 

The  newly  acquired  station  at  Kweiteh  must  be 
strengthened  at  once.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Townshend, 
as  independent  missionaries,  have  done  a  very 
creditable  work,  but  the  property  is  in  restricted 
quarters  and  must  be  enlarged  for  the  future 
progress  of  the  work.  Other  missionaries  must  be 
sent  to  help  build  up  necessary  institutions.  It  is 
a  field  of  wonderful  possibilities. 

MISCELLANEOUS 

Bible  Training  School  for  Men  for  the  Mis¬ 
sion  $  4,000 

Bible  Training  School  for  Women  for  the  Mis¬ 
sion  4,000 

Church  Building  Loan  Fund  10,000 

The  mission  is  calling  for  a  small  amount  with 
which  to  build  up  a  Bible  training  school  for  men, 
and  a  similar  school  for  women.  These  needs 
should  be  promptly  met.  The  necessity  for  trained 
men  and  women  for  missionary  work  exists  in  the 
Interior  Mission  which  obtains  in  all  our  mission 
fields.  This  phase  of  our  work  must  receive  very 
adequate  attention. 

NEW  MISSIONARIES 
Kaifeng 

Man  for  Country  Evangelistic  Work 

Single  Woman  for  City  Work 

Single  Woman  for  Girls’  School 

Man  for  Industrial  School  Work 

Three  Men  for  Evangelistic  Work  in  Country 

Doctor 

Man  for  Agricultural  Work,  Industrial  School 
Woman  Physician 

Single  Woman  for  Kindergarten  Work 
Man  for  Normal  School  Work 
Man  for  General  Supervisor  of  Day  Schools  in 
Mission 
Chengchow 
Doctor 

Single  Woman  for  Educational  Work 
Man  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Kung  Hsien 
Man  for  Evangelistic  Work  Mi  Hsien 
Man  for  Evangelistic  Work  Hsien  Cheng 
Second  Man  for  Evangelistic  Work  Mi  Hsien 
Second  Doctor 
Trained  Nurse 
Woman  Doctor 

Single  Woman  for  Kindergarten  Work 
Two  Men  for  Evangelistic  Work  in  Important 
Outposts 

Man  for  Institutional  Church  Work 
Pochow 

Man  for  Evangelistic  Work 
Doctor 

Single  Woman  for  Educational  Work 
Single  Woman  for  Evangelistic  Work 
Four  Men  for  Evangelistic  Work  in  New  Sta¬ 
tions 

Man  for  Educational  Work 
Kweiteh 

Man  for  Evangelistic  Work 

Single  Woman  for  School  and  Evangelistic  Work 

Man  for  Evangelistic  Work 


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Kathleen  Mallory  Hospital,  Laichow 


Oxner  Memorial  Hospital,  Pingtu 


NORTH  CHINA  MISSION 

SUMMARY  OF  NEEDS 


NEW  PROPERTY 

Twenty-two  Residences  for  Missionaries  $  103,350 

Land,  Buildings  and  Equipment,  18  Schools  194,950 

Land  and  Buildings  for  Two  Churches  19,000 

Land,  Buildings  and  Equipment  for  Seven  Hospitals  and 

Dispensaries  32,250 

Church  Building  Loan  Fund  25,000 

Extension  (Six  New  Stations)  167,500 

Miscellaneous  19,450 — 1 


NEW  MISSIONARIES 

Nineteen  Men  for  Evangelistic  Work 

Seventeen  Single  Women  for  Evangelistic  Work 

Thirteen  Men  for  Educational  Work 

Six  Single  Women  for  Educational  Work 

Five  Physicians 

Six  Trained  Nurses 

One  Dentist 

One  Man  for  General  Sunday  School  Work 

Total  New  Missionaries  (if  men  are  married),  107 

Equipment  and  Outgoing  Expenses  ($650  per  Missionary) 


561,500 


69,550 


Grand  Total 


$  631,050 


Kindergarten  Children  it  Play,  “Building  Churches,”  Tengchow 


DESCRIPTION  OF  NEEDS 


UR  North  China  Mission  is  located 
in  the  great  province  of  Shantung, 
that  vital  province  in  Northeast 
China  over  which  there  has  been  so 
much  conflict  of  late.  It  has  a  popu¬ 
lation  almost  as  large  as  that  of  the  territory 
covered  by  the  Southern  Baptist  Convention. 

Our  work  has  been  very  prosperous,  but  still 
there  are  vast  regions  not  touched.  In  the  Taian 
field  there  are,  at  least,  twenty  cities  ranging  from 
five  to  ten  thousand  inhabitants  each,  where  the 
Gospel  has  scarcely  ever  been  preached.  The 
spiritual  condition  of  the  people  is  most  distress¬ 
ing.  A  missionary  seeing  the  people  returning 
from  their  temples,  where  they  had  gone  to  wor¬ 
ship  in  hopes  of  staying  the  cholera  plague  in 
Tengchow,  remarked:  “It  is  pitiful  to  see  the 
people  going  to  their  temples,  dressed  in  white 
clothes,  the  mourning  color,  wailing  aloud  and 
bumping  their  heads  on  the  ground  before  the 
dumb  idols,  thus  announcing  the  deaths  of  their 
loved  ones,  and  opening  the  way  for  them  to  enter 
the  abode  of  departed  spirits.  This  is  all  a  part 
of  their  system  of  ancestor  worship,  and  is  the 
strongest  obstacle  to  the  advance  of  Christianity 
in  China.” 

We  need  the  following  equipment  in  our  North 
China  work: 


RESIDENCES  FOR  MISSIONARIES 

Women  Evangelistic  Missionaries,  Chefoo  $  5.000 
Educational  Missionary,  Chefoo  5.000 

Evangelistic  Missionary,  Hwanghien  5,000 

Evangelistic  Missionary,  Lungkow  5,000 

Educational  Missionary,  Hwanghien  5.000 

Medical  Missionary,  Hwanghien  5,000 

Evangelistic  Missionary,  Laichow  5,000 

Single  Women,  Girls’  School,  Laichow  4,000 

Medical  Missionary,  Laichow  (completion)  850 

Evangelistic  Missionary  Family,  Laiyang  4.000 


Single  Women,  Laiyang  4,000 

Educational  Family,  Laiyang  5,000 

Evangelistic  Family,  Pingtu  5,000 

Medical  Missionary  Family,  Pingtu  5,000 

Evangelistic  Missionary  Family,  Taian  5,000 

Educational  Missionary  Family,  Taian  5,000 

Evangelistic  Missionary  Family,  Tengchow  3,500 

Two  Educational  Missionary  Families,  Teng¬ 
chow  7,000 

General  Mission  Medical  Man  5,000 

General  Mission  Dentist  5,000 


One  of  the  most  economical  expenditures  of 
the  Board  is  that  of  providing  comfortable  houses 
for  the  missionaries.  Many  of  the  missionaries 
have  lived  in  unsanitary  and  uncomfortable  Chi¬ 
nese  houses,  but  this  is  always  done  at  a  great 


risk  to  health. 

CHURCH  BUILDINGS 

Church  Building,  Hwanghien  City  $16,500 

Church  Building,  Chao  Yuen,  Hwanghien  2,500 

Church  Building  Loan  Fund  25.000 

Woman’s  Evangelistic  Work,  Hwanghien  1,700 

Tent  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Hwanghien  250 

Tent  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Laichow  250 

Evangelistic  Equipment,  Pingtu  5,000 

Tent  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Tengchow  250 


Chinese  Ambulance — Patient  Arriving  at  Hospital 


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Qne  of  the  prime  necessities  of  the  missionary 
endeavor  is  suitable  church  buildings  in  which  to 
worship.  We  cannot  expect  to  win  the  Chinese 
with  poorly  ventilated,  poorly  lighted,  rented  mis¬ 
sion  quarters  on  side  streets.  It  is  the  policy 
of  the  Board  to  help  the  churches  in  the  great 
centers  to  secure  as  early  as  possible  good  church 
plants,  and  in  addition  to  these  there  should  be 
provided  an  adequate  Church  Building  Loan  Fund 
which  would  encourage  the  churches  in  the 
smaller  towns  especially  to  erect  for  themselves 
church  buildings. 

At  Hwanghien  all  of  our  institutions  are  lo¬ 
cated  outside  of  the  city  for  the  reason  that  for 
thirty  years  the  missionaries  worked  there  before 
permission  to  even  rent  a  building  in  the  city 
was  granted.  For  several  years  the  door  has  been 
open  and  we  have  gained  a  foothold  inside.  There 
is  every  reason  to  believe  that  we  can  have  a 
great  work  in  this  great  commercial  city  if  we  can 
provide  the  proper  church  building. 

Another  unique  and  pressing  need  for  a  church 
building  is  in  the  important  city  of  Tsingtao. 
With  a  large  plant  and  proper  leadership  Baptists 
could  come  quickly  to  the  front  in  Tsingtao  and 
preach  the  gospel  to  thousands  all  over  this  prov¬ 
ince. 


SCHOOLS 

Girls’  Boarding  School,  Chefoo  $  8,500 

Kindergarten  Building,  Cheefoo  1,250 

Boys’  Boarding  School,  Chefoo  12,500 

Boys’  Academy,  Hwanghien  5.000 

Building  for  Carter  Girls’  School,  Hwanghien  10,000 
Equipment  for  Carter  Girls’  School,  Hwang¬ 
hien  5,000 

Electric  Light  System,  Hwanghien  1,700 

Kindergarten  Building,  Laiehow  850 

Electric  Light  System,  Laiehow  1,700 

Boys’  Boarding  School,  Laiyang  4.00C 

Girls’  Boarding  School,  Laiyang  4.000 

Pingtu  Institute  25,000 

Effie  Sears  Memorial  Girls’  School,  Pingtu  8.500 

Electric  Light  System,  Pingtu  1,700 

Boys’  Boarding  School,  Taian  4,000 

Girls’  Boarding  School,  Taian  4,000 

Kindergarten,  Tengchow  850 

Boys’  Boarding  School,  Tengchow  6,000 

Girls’  Boarding  School,  Tengchow  7,500 

Land,  Buildings  and  Equipment,  North  China 

College  88.000 

Additional  Land,  Tengchow  Compound  3,500 


The  outstanding  feature  of  the  denomination’s 
program  in  North  China  is  the  combined  educa¬ 
tional  institutions  which  will  include  a  Junior 
College,  Middle  School  for  Boys,  Normal  and 
Kindergarten  Training  School,  Woman’s  Bible 
Training  School,  Industrial  School  and  Bush 
Theological  Seminary.  By  this  concentration  the 
educational  program  will  be  strengthened.  The 
Judson  Centennial  will  contribute  fifty  thousand 
dollars  to  this  enterprise,  but  the  additional 
amount  included  in  the  five-year  program  is  essen¬ 
tial  to  its  success. 


Baptist  Church,  Laiehow 


It  appears  now  Tsingtao  will  be  given  back 
to  China,  or  possibly  put  under  international  con¬ 
trol.  It  is  for  this  reason  that  the  Mission  has 
asked  that  the  money  be  sent  out  for  the  land  for 
the  college.  There  is  great  danger  that  all  the 
desirable  sites  in  Tsingtao  will  be  taken  up  or 
that  they  will  be  so  high  that  we  cannot  afford  to 
buy.  Prompt  action  is  necessary  if  we  secure  the 
land.  Land  is  not  cheap  even  now. 

Another  reason  for  securing  land  at  once  is  that 
for  industrial  purposes  we  must  have  the  land 
as  the  foundation.  All  Chinese  boys  can 
farm.  It  is  our  hope  that  we  can,  in  connection 
with  the  school,  teach  the  Chinese  how  to  help 
themselves  and  not  be  afraid  of  manual  labor. 
We  must  buy  all  the  land  now  we  hope  to  use,  or 
we  may  not  be  able  to  get  it  at  all. 

This  combined  institution,  we  believe,  is  des¬ 
tined  to  perform  a  far-reaching  service  in  the 
North  China  field,  and  it  should  be  developed  as 
rapidly  as  the  missionaries  and  the  money  can 
be  provided. 

It  has  been  decided  to  have  high  schools  for 
boys  in  three  of  our  mission  stations  in  North 
China,  and  high  schools  for  girls  in  as  many 
stations.  Grammar  schools  for  girls  and  boys 
will  be  maintained  in  all  other  mission  stations. 
The  amounts  asked  for  the  various  grammar  and 
high  schools  are  very  urgently  needed. 


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Woman’s  Building,  Warren  Memorial  Hospital,  Hwanghien 


We  need  at  once  money  for  the  girls’  school  at 
Hwanghien.  The  present  building  should  be  torn 
down  and  rebuilt  on  another  site.  The  present 
building  is  unsafe.  Both  the  location  and  the 
building  are  very  poor.  There  are  sixty  girls  in 
this  school  and  a  long  waiting  list.  Accommoda¬ 
tions  should  be  provided  for  100. 

The  needs  of  all  of  the  other  school  buildings 
mentioned  here  have  been  before  the  mission  for 
a  considerable  time.  If  our  work  is  to  be  de¬ 
veloped,  these  needs  must  be  speedily  met. 

MEDICAL  WORK 


Buildings  and  Equipment,  Warren  Memorial 


Hospital,  Hwanghien 

$13,700 

Hospital  Building,  Laichow 

5.000 

Equipment  Hospitals,  Laichow 

4.000 

Dispensary,  Laiyang 

5.000 

Hospitals,  Pingtu 

7,000 

Well  Pingtu  Compound 

1,700 

It  is  necessary  to  move  the  present  men’s  hos¬ 
pital  at  Pingtu  to  higher  and  drier  ground.  The 
present  location  is  very  undesirable.  Money 
should  be  provided  for  this  purpose  at  once.  The 
Woman’s  Hospital  has  been  made  possible  out  of 
the  Judson  Centennial  Fund,  and  the  two  should 
be  erected  at  the  same  time. 

The  first  hospital  at  Hwanghien  was  built  at  the 
cost  of  $3,000.  This  amount  had  to  provide 
for  the  land,  buildings  and  wall  running  around 
the  same.  It  can  readily  be  imagined  the  kind  of 
buildings  that  went  up.  Since  that  time  the 
Woman’s  Hospital  has  been  torn  down  and  a  new 
building  erected.  The  men’s  building  stands.  The 
men’s  building  should  be  torn  down  and  a  more 
up-to-date  hospital  put  in  its  place.  The  hos¬ 
pital  is  so  crowded  that  it  would  be  condemned 


bv  any  competent  board  of  medical  examiners. 
We  must  not  suffer  the  first  hospital  Southern  Bap¬ 
tists  built  to  be  condemned.  In  our  present  men’s 
hospital  we  haven’t  a  single  private  room. 

EXTENSION  (SIX  NEW  STATIONS) 


Residences  Two  Evangelistic  Missionary 

Families,  Dalny  $13,000 

Church  Building,  Dalny  11,500 

Residences  Two  Evangelistic  Missionary  Fam¬ 
ilies,  Harbin  10,000 

Church  Building,  Harbin  4,000 

Residence  Evangelistic  Women  Missionaries, 

Hsintai  5,000 

Residences  Two  Evangelistic  Missionary  Fam¬ 
ilies,  Hsintai  10,000 

Residence  Educational  Missionary  Family, 

Hsintai  5,000 

Residence  Medical  Missionary  Family,  Hsintai  5,000 

Girls’  Boarding  School,  Hsintai  4.000 

Boys’  Boarding  School,  Hsintai  4,000 

Dispensary,  Hsintai  2,500 

Church  Building,  Hsintai  4,000 

Residences  Two  Evangelistic  Missionary  Fam¬ 
ilies,  Tsingtao  15,000 

Church  Building,  Tsingtao  10,000 

Residences  Three  Evangelistic  Missionary 

Families,  Tsi  Ning  Chow  15,000 

Church  Building,  Tsi  Ning  Chow  12,500 

Residences  Three  Evangelistic  Missionaries, 

Tsinanfu  20,000 

Church  Building,  Tsinanfu  16,500 


We  have  not  opened  full-fledged  work  in 
Tsinan,  the  capital  of  Shantung  province,  a  city  of 
100,000  inhabitants.  Certainly  it  must  be  our  re¬ 
sponsibility  to  give  the  gospel  in  this  strategic  city. 
We  have  more  Baptists  in  Shantung  Province 
than  we  have  in  any  other  province  in  China,  and 
yet  we  have  no  church  in  the  capital.  There  are 
3,000  Christians  in  the  churches  in  the  country 
south  of  Tsinan,  to  say  nothing  of  those  east  of  it. 


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Many  students  will  go  to  Tsinan  for  education. 
Surely  it  is  the  part  of  wisdom  to  open  up  work 
in  this  city. 

In  the  western  part  of  the  Province  of  Shan¬ 
tung  there  lias  been  a  wonderful  growth  in  our 
Baptist  churches.  The  native  association  has  car¬ 
ried  forward  a  vigorous  home  mission  program, 
and  our  Gospel  Mission  brethren  have  also  done  a 
very  successful  evangelistic  woik  in  that  region. 

Tsi  Ning  Chow  is  second  in  size  to  the  capital 
of  the  province  and  is  one  of  the  great  commercial 
centers  of  both  old  and  new  China.  In  the  re¬ 
gion  of  this  city  there  are  600  converts  who  have 
been  organized  into  four  churches.  The  native 
workers  sent  out  by  the  native  association  have 
gathered  into  these  churches  large  numbers  of 
converts,  but  they  are  unable  to  train  those  they 
have  won  for  the  reason  that  they  have  had  no 
special  training  themselves.  They  are  pleading 
for  some  missionaries  to  come  to  their  aid.  This 
is  one  of  our  great  opportunities  in  China.  We 
need  two  families  to  work  with  the  Christians  in 
the  schools  and  to  preach  the  gospel.  These  fam¬ 
ilies,  of  course,  need  a  place  in  which  to  live. 

Hsintai  is  another  great  center  in  this  same 
west  Shantung  field.  The  multitudes  throng  in 
this  region.  A  vigorous  mission  station  should  be 
opened  here  with  provision  for  the  missionaries 
to  have  boys’  schools  and  girls’  schools,  together 
with  a  church  and  hospital  facilities. 

The  Board  and  the  North  China  Mission  have 
long  planned  to  press  a  vigorous  mission  work 
amongst  the  millions  of  Chinese  in  Manchuria. 
We  have  now  some  of  our  best  young  men  from 
our  schools  in  the  large  centers  in  Manchuria. 
Mukden,  Harbin  and  Dalny  are  growing  rapidly. 
Dalny  is  now  the  fifth  port  in  China  in  volume  of 
trade.  The  iniquities  in  these  cities  are  unspeak¬ 
able.  We  should  move  with  strong  forces  into 
Manchuria  at  once. 

NEW  MISSIONARIES 
Chefoo 

Man  for  Evangelistic  Work 
Single  Woman  for  Evangelistic  Work 
Man  for  Educational  Work 
Single  Woman  for  Kindergarten  Work 
Hwanghien 

Man  for  Evangelistic  Work 


Man  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Lungkow 
Second  Man  for  Evangelistic  Work 
Two  Single  Women  for  Evangelistic  Work 
Man  for  Educational  Work 
Single  Woman  for  Educationa  I  Work 
Physician 
Nurse 
Laichowfu 

Man  for  Evangelistic  Work 
Single  Woman  for  Evangelistic  Work 
Man  for  Educational  Work 
Physician 

Two  Trained  Nurses 
Laiyang 

Man  for  Evangelistic  Work 
Two  Single  Women  for  Evangelistic  Work 
Man  for  Educational  Work 
Single  Woman  for  Educational  Work 
Trained  Nurse 
Pingtu 

Man  for  Evangelistic  Work 
Single  Woman  for  Evangelistic  Work 
Man  for  Educational  Work 
Physician 
Trained  Nurse 
Taian 

Two  Single  Women  for  Evangelistic  Work 
Man  for  Educational  Work 
Single  Woman  for  Educational  Work 
Tengehow' 

Single  Woman  for  Evangelistic  Work 
Man  for  Educational  Work 
Trained  Nurse 
New  Work 

Two  Men  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Dalny 
Single  Woman  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Dalny 
Two  Men  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Harbin 
Two  Men  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Hsintai 
Two  Single  Women  for  Evangelistic  Work, 
Hsintai 

Man  for  Educational  Work,  Hsintai 
Single  Woman  for  Educational  Work,  Hsintai 
Physician,  Hsintai 

Two  Men  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Tsingtao 
Two  Single  Women  for  Evangelistic  Work, 
Tsingtao 

Two  Men  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Tsi  Ning 
Chow 

Two  Single  Women  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Tsi 
Ning  Chow 

Two  Men  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Tsinanfu 
General 

Man  for  General  Sunday  School  Work 
Physician  for  General  Mission  Work 
Dentist  for  General  Mission  Work 
Five  Men  for  Educational  Work,  North  China 
College 

Single  Woman  for  Educational  Work,  Normal 
School 


Judson  Building,  Girls’  Academy,  Canton 


Tungshan  Baptist  Church,  Canton 


SOUTH  CHINA  MISSION 

SUMMARY  OF  NEEDS 

NEW  PROPERTY 

Nineteen  Residences  for  Missionaries  $ 

Land,  Buildings  and  Equipment  for  23  Schools 
Buildings  and  Equipment  for  Eight  Hospitals  and  Dis¬ 
pensaries 

Twelve  Church  Buildings 
Extension  (Five  New  Stations) 

Miscellaneous 

Church  Building  Loan  Fund 
Literature 


NEW  MISSIONARIES 

Twelve  Men  for  Evangelistic  Work 

Seven  Single  Women  for  Evangelistic  Work 

Ten  Men  for  Educational  Work 

Twenty-nine  Single  Women  for  Educational  Work 

Twelve  Men  for  Medical  Work 

One  Woman  for  Medical  Work 

Total  New  Missionaries  (if  men  are  married),  105 

Equipment  and  Outgoing  Expenses  ($650  per  missionary  68,250 


82,600 

421,550 

111,500 

155,150 

228,000 

78,300 

40,000 

126,700—$  1,243,800 


Grand  Total 


$  1,312,050 


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DESCRIPTION  OF  NEEDS 


HREE  dialects  are  spoken  by  the  peo¬ 
ple  within  the  hounds  of  our  South 
China  Mission,  the  Mandarin  dialect, 
the  Cantonese,  and  the  Hakka. 
These  dialects  are  so  distinct  that 
they  amount  to  practically  different  languages. 
Missionaries  using  one  dialect  will  not  be  able  to 
do  successful  work  in  any  of  the  others. 


KWEILIN 

Bible  Training  School  for  Evangelists  $  3.000 

Branch  Preaching  Hall  3.000 

Additional  Fund  for  Building  Church  10.000 

Girls’  School  Building  10.000 

Woman’s  School  Building  5.000 

High  School  Building  6.000 

Hospital  20.000 

Three  Dispensaries  1.500 

Buying  and  Equipping  Book  Room  for  City  4.000 
Buying  Land  and  Grading  Compound  5  000 

Sewerage  and  Water  System  5.000 

Four  Residences  12,000 

Boys’  School  Building  5,000 


The  center  of  our  work  for  the  Mandarin-speak¬ 
ing  people  is  at  Kweilin,  in  Northeast  Kwang  Si 
Province.  This  is  our  newest  work  in  South 
China.  Both  because  it  is  new  and  because  of 
its  success,  it  is  in  great  need  of  equipment.  We 
have  appropriated  money  enough  for  the  pur¬ 
chase  of  a  church  lot  in  the  center  of  the  city  of 
Kweilin.  The  situation  is  superb.  It  is  very 
earnestly  requested  that  money  be  appropriated 
for  a  church  building. 

The  school  work  in  Kweilin  is  developing  nice¬ 
ly.  Already  there  is  a  girls’  school,  occupying 
a  wooden  building,  which  is  both  inadequate  and 
dangerous.  It  should  have  a  new  building.  For 
the  boys’  school  $5,000  was  raised  in  the  Judson 
Centennial  Fund,  hut  this  is  not  sufficient  to  take 
care  of  its  growing  needs,  so  an  additional  $5,000 
must  be  provided. 


The  mission  is  exceedingly  anxious  to  have  two 
other  schools,  a  Bible  training  school  for  evan¬ 
gelists,  in  which  men  will  be  trained  for  direct 
evangelistic  and  colportage  work,  and  some  will 
do  preparatory  work  for  the  seminary.  It  is 
urged  also  that  we  must  provide  for  a  woman’s 
training  school,  in  which  Bible  women  would  be 
trained  and  mothers  of  families  would  he  taught 
to  read. 

We  have  a  medical  missionary  stationed  at 
Is.weilin,  who  is  trying  to  reach  out  to  the  vast 
multitudes  in  the  Mandarin-speaking  field.  The 
medical  work  has  met  with  great  encouragement. 
It  should  be  provided  with  a  hospital. 

Another  feature  of  work  that  has  been  quite 
successful  in  Kweilin  is  the  use  of  a  bookroom 
for  the  distribution  of  literature  and  for  dealing 
personally  with  individuals.  It  is  quite  necessary 
to  provide  a  cheerful  and  more  inviting  room  for 
this  purpose. 

For  the  missionaries  at  Kweilin  we  need  four 
residences. 


YINGTAK 

Addition  to  Church  $  3  000 

Furnishing  Boys’  School  Building  1,000 

Girls’  School  Dormitory  5,000 

Kindergarten  (addition  to  Judson  Centennial)  500 

Addition  to  Primary  School  Building  4  000 

Interior  Primary  Schools  5,000 

Hospital  10.000 

Three  Residences  13,500 


The  center  of  our  work  for  the  people  speaking 
the  Hakka  dialect  is  Yingtak.  In  this  city  already 
we  have  erected  some  school  buildings,  a  church, 
a  hospital,  and  some  residences  for  missionaries. 
It  is  necessary  to  erect  an  addition  to  the  church. 

The  Boys’  Boarding  School  and  the  Girls’ 
Boarding  School  have  experienced  a  very  credit¬ 
able  development.  They  have  grown  to  such  a 


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degree  that  it  is  necessary  to  provide  additional 
space  for  the  accommodation  of  those  who  are 
crowding  in.  In  order  to  provide  for  the  students 
coming  to  the  Girls’  Boarding  School,  it  has  been 
necessary  to  use  one  of  the  buildings  that  has 
formerly  been  occupied  by  the  primary  school. 

The  primary  school  situation  is  seious.  It  is 
impossible  to  do  in  Yingtak  the  primary  school 
work  for  the  whole  Hakka  field.  Some  of  the 
students  come  through  robber-infested  mountains, 
a  journey  requiring  five  days.  On  account  of  con¬ 
ditions  it  sometimes  requires  two  weeks.  If  the 
children  of  Christian  parents  could  reach  a  Chris¬ 
tian  school  in  one  day,  and  the  parents  could  be 
assured  that  in  case  of  sickness  they  could  reach 
their  children,  a  great  many  more  children  would 
enter  the  primary  schools.  These  primary  schools 
would  act  as  feeders  of  our  grammar  and  high 
schools.  The  girls  marry  so  young  that  it  is  neces¬ 
sary  to  reach  them  in  these  primary  schools  if 
they  are  reached  at  all.  Most  of  them  marry  be¬ 
fore  they  reach  the  age  of  twelve  unless  we  first 
get  to  them  in  the  schools.  It  is  the  desire,  there¬ 
fore,  that  we  shall  have  a  primary  school,  with  a 
missionary  in  charge,  for  every  day’s  journey. 

A  doctor  is  greatly  needed  at  Yingtak.  When 
he  is  secured  it  is  necessary  to  provide  additional 
hospital  facilities. 


WUCHOW 

Addition  to  Church  $15,000 

Girls’  School  25  000 

Boys’  School  20  000 

Woman's  School  8  000 

Kindergarten  5  000 

Hospital  50  000 

Improvement  of  Compound  10.000 

New  Land  and  Development  7.000 

Water  Supply  7,000 

Four  Residences  18,000 


The  centers  in  which  the  Cantonese  dialect  is 
spoken  are  Wuchow,  Shiu  Hing,  Macau,  Kong 
Moon,  and  Canton.  In  the  great  city  of  Wuchow, 
after  many,  many  years  of  waiting,  we  have  been 


able  to  acquire  sufficient  land  for  the  majority 
of  our  main  buildings.  The  work  has  grown  to 
such  an  extent  that  it  is  necessary  to  acquire  more 
land  in  order  that  the  Girls’  School,  in  particular, 
may  have  enough  ground  upon  which  to  develop. 
This  Girls’  School  must  also  have  buildings.  All 
of  the  schools,  from  the  kindergarten  to  the  Boys’ 
School  and  the  Girls’  School  in  Wuchow  are  in 
very  critical  need  of  more  buildings  and  equip¬ 
ment. 

One  of  the  outstanding  needs  of  the  whole 
South  China  Mission  is  that  of  completing  a  great 
hospital  plant  which  has  been  projected  at  Wu¬ 
chow.  This  plant,  when  completed,  will  cost  be¬ 
tween  $75,000  and  $100,000.  Already  the  first 
and  a  portion  of  the  second  story  have  been  built, 
but  in  order  to  complete  the  building  we  must 
have  at  least  $50,000  more.  When  this  building 
is  completed  the  institution  will  be  practically 
self-supporting,  and  will  attempt  to  occupy  a  field 
which  is  practically  limitess.  In  order  to  carry 
out  the  great  work  this  hospital  should  perform, 
there  should  be  in  it  a  staff  of  at  least  four  foreign 
doctors. 

The  evangelistic  work  of  the  Cantonese-speak¬ 
ing  section  of  the  province  of  Kwang  Si,  embrac¬ 
ing  perhaps  4,000,000  people,  should  certainly 
have  the  two  evangelistic  missionaries  who  have 
been  requested.  In  this  field  there  are  hundreds 
of  untouched  cities  and  market  towns. 

In  Wuchow  there  is  no  city  water  system,  and 
not  likely  to  be  for  a  long  time.  Water  must 
be  carried  by  hand  for  use  in  the  hospital  and 
other  mission  buildings.  Such  a  practice  is  not 
only  very  expensive,  but  dangerous  to  the  health 
of  the  missionaries.  A  water  supply  must  be 
developed.  This  necessity  for  providing  a  water 
supply  holds  also  in  everyone  of  our  mission  sta¬ 
tions  in  South  China. 

We  have  reached  the  time  when  it  is  necessary 
to  enlarge  our  church  building  at  Wuchow.  It  is 


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impossible  now  to  teach  satisfactorily  the  Sunday 
school  of  more  than  300.  The  crowds  at  the 
preaching  service  often  overtax  the  capacity  of 
the  building. 

SHIU  HING 

Remodeling  House  for  Boarding  School  $  800 

Residence  3,600 

The  workers  at  Shiu  Hing  are  living  in  a  small 
one-story  building,  surrounded  by  other  buildings 
in  such  a  way  that  the  breezes  are  practically  all 
cut  off.  The  seriousness  of  this  situation  will  be 
appreciated  when  we  recall  the  far  southern  loca¬ 
tion  of  this  city.  It  is  certainly  necessary  that  a 
comfortable  building  be  provided  for  our  women 
workers  in  Sliiu  Hing.  The  school  building  also 
is  in  serious  need  of  remodeling. 

MACAU 

Opening  Preaching  Hall,  Book  and  Reading 

Room  $  1,200 

Church  Equipment,  Boys’  and  Girls’  Schools  2,500 
Additional  Church,  and  Boys’  School  Building  3  000 
Additional  for  Girls’  School  Building  2.000 

Land  for  Residences  4  000 

Two  Residences  9.000 

Residences  for  Chinese  Workers  3,000 

Macau,  down  by  the  sea,  is  a  very  important 
city.  Recently  land  has  been  secured  for  the 
church  building  which  makes  it  possible  now  for 
us  to  develop  the  work  in  a  very  much  more  satis¬ 
factory  manner.  The  church  equipment  and  the 
additional  sums  requested  for  the  Boys’  and  Girls’ 
Schools,  as  well  as  that  asked  for  the  book  and 
reading  room,  should  be  readily  provided.  The 
necessity  for  providing  residences  for  the  mission¬ 
aries  is  apparent. 


KONG  MOON 


Church  Building 

2,400 

Girls’  School  Building 

8.000 

Woman’s  School  Building 

4,000 

Kindergarten 

1,800 

Hospital 

20,000 

Church  Building,  San  Ooi 

5,000 

Book  Room 

1,500 

Grading  of  Land 

300 

Two  Residences 

7,500 

Kong  Moon  and  its  companion  city,  San  Ooi, 
are  the  centers  for  one  of  the  most  thickly  popu¬ 
lated  regions  of  China.  Certainly  the  mission¬ 
aries  in  charge  could  request  no  less  than  the 
modest  sums  they  have  asked  for  church  buildings 
in  each  of  these  two  cities,  and  for  buildings  for 
the  Girls’  School  and  the  Woman’s  School.  It 
would  he  hardly  possible  to  find  a  more  needy 
section  for  the  development  of  a  hospital. 

The  kindergarten  and  book  rooms  are  methods 
of  mission  work  which  will  pay  large  returns  in 
these  two  great  cities. 

The  health  of  some  of  our  missionaries  has  al¬ 
ready  been  seriously  undermined  by  our  failure 
to  provide  them  residences.  We  should  not 
neglect  this  duty  longer. 


CANTON 

Evangelistic  Center  on  Bund  $50  000 

Student  House  20,000 

Wai  Oi  Paat  Church  (Memorial  to  Dr. 

Graves)  11.000 

Church  on  Tung  Shan  Compound  50.000 

Two  Girls’  Day!  Schools  in  Tsz  Yap  Field  2.000 
Two  Kindergartens,  in  Connection  with  Tung 

Shan  Kindergarten  1,000 

Graves  Seminary 

Buying  and  Grading  Land  4.000 

Repairing  Administration  Building  2.000 

Dining  Room  and  Gymnasium  11,200 

Furniture  for  Same  2.000 

New  Dormitory  and  Equipment  15,000 


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Woman’s  Training  School,  Land,  Building 

and  Equipment  20,000 

Settlement  House  for  Training  School  5,000 

Pooi  To  (Girls’  Boarding  School) 

Furniture  for  Present  Dormitory  3,000 

Buying  Graves  and  Grading  Land  1,000 

High  School  Administration  Building  40,000 

Furniture  and  Equipment  for  Same  9,000 

Finishing  Present  Primary  Building 

Primary  Class  Room  Building  20,000 

Furniture  and  Equipment  3.000 

Science  and  General  Equipment  5.000 

Library  Fund  (for  opening)  2,000 

Help  on  Gymnasium  Building  15,000 

Equipment  for  Gymnasium  1,000 

Grammar  School  Roomf  Building  30,000 

Furniture  and  Equipment  4,000 

High  School  Dormitory  Building  30,000 

Furniture  and  Equipment  4,000 

Land  for  Future  Development  of  Junior 

College  or  Normal  School  30,000 

Pooi  In  (Woman’s  School) 

Administration  Building  7,000 

Furniture  for  Same  3,000 

Dining  Room  and  Dormitory  8.000 

Furniture  for  Same  2,500 

Furniture  for  Old  Dormitory  1,500 

Bath  Rooms  and  Closets  1,000 

Opening  Girls’  School  and  Chapel  near 
Tung  Shan  500 

China  Baptist  Publication  Society 

Printing  and  Circulating  the  Scriptures, 

$10,000  Annually  50,000 

Salaries  of  Chinese  Translators  and  Writ¬ 
ers,  $6,000  Annually  30,000 

Campaign  of  Education  and  Indoctrina¬ 
tion,  $8,000  Annually  40,000 

Waterworks  and  Sewerage,  Tung  Shan  $15,000 

Filling  Pond,  Tung  Shan  Compound  1,000 

Three  Residences,  Tung  Shan  15,000 

Equipment  for  Pooi  Ching  Academy  (Boys’ 

Academy),  5,000  a  year  for  five  years  25,000 
To  Contribute  One  Dollar  to  Every  Three  to 

Tung  Shan  Baptist  Hospital  up  to  10,000 


Canton  is  one  of  the  largest  cities  in  the  world. 
It  is  the  oldest  of  our  Southern  Baptist  mission 
stations.  In  this  great  city  we  have  already  de¬ 
veloped  some  of  our  strongest  and  most  effective 
institutions.  The  Girls’  Boarding  School,  called 
Pooi  To,  is  at  the  head  of  our  Girls’  School  system 
in  the  South  China  Mission.  This  institution  al¬ 
ready  has  departments  ranging  from  the  kinder¬ 
garten  to  the  high  school.  It  also  has  a  normal 
training  department  which  is  to  receive  very  much 
more  attention  in  the  future.  It  is  expected  also 
that  tins  school  will  eventually  be  advanced  to  the 
college  grade.  One  of  China’s  crying  needs  is 
for  more  competent  teachers.  While  it  has  some 
very  creditable  buildings,  Pooi  To  needs  prac¬ 
tically  everything  that  a  growing  institution  for 
the  training  of  young  women  requires. 

Another  interesting  institution  in  Canton  is  the 
Boys’  Academy,  called  Pooi  Ching.  This  institu¬ 
tion  has  been  developed  largely  through  native 
enterprise.  One  Chinese  gave  to  it  a  building 
which  cost  over  $20,000.  These  Chinese  are  now 
engaged  in  an  effort  to  raise  $150,000  for  this 


institution,  but  even  so  it  is  not  possible  for  the 
Chinese  to  raise  a  sufficient  amount  to  provide  for 
the  proper  development  of  this  growing  institu¬ 
tion.  They  must  have  assistance.  The  school  will 
eventually  reach  the  college  grade. 

The  Graves  Theological  Seminary  is  the  largest 
seminary  now  operated  by  the  Foreign  Mission 
Board.  It  has  an  enrollment  of  almost  100  stu¬ 
dents,  and  has  a  most  encouraging  outlook.  It  is 
in  great  need  of  more  land,  more  dormitories,  a 
dining  room,  and  a  gymnasium.  The  kitchen  and 
dining  room  now  in  use  are  pitifully  inadequate. 

There  has  recently  been  organized  a  Woman’s 
Training  School,  and  the  same  co-operation  will 
be  maintained  with  the  Graves  Seminary  by  this 
school  as  is  maintained  by  the  training  schools  in 
Louisville  and  Fort  Worth  with  the  seminaries 
there.  The  initial  building  and  equipment  must 
be  provided  at  once. 

Into  Canton  flock  every  year  literally  tens  of 
thousands  of  students.  What  can  be  done  to  evan¬ 
gelize  these  students?  Our  plan  is  to  erect  a 
Baptist  student  house  in  the  center  of  the  student 
section,  near  our  church.  It  will  contain  a  lecture 
hall,  chapel  and  library,  supplied  with  select  Chi- 
nest  literature,  a  dining  room,  kitchen,  servants’ 
quarters  and  as  many  sleeping  rooms  as  the  money 
available  will  pay  for.  We  propose  to  include  in 
this  Student  House  living  quarters  for  a  special 
foreign  missionary,  who  will  go  out  designated 
for  work  among  the  students.  On  account  of  the 
fact  that  little  effort  is  made  on  the  part  of  the 
schools  to  provide  comfortable  living  quarters 
for  the  students,  a  student  house  like  this  would 
meet  a  unique  opportunity.  Someone  has  well 
said,  “This  is  the  quick  of  China’s  needs.”  The 
$20,000  requested  for  this  building  offers  oppor¬ 
tunity  for  a  great  investment  for  the  Lord. 

Some  outstanding  requests  are  made  along  the 
line  of  church  buildings.  The  whole  mission  is 
agreed  that  $50,000  for  the  erection  of  a  church 
building  on  Tung  Shan  Compound  is  one  of  the 
most  urgent  needs  in  South  China.  More  than  a 
thousand  students  are  on  our  compound  in  Canton. 
It  is  utterly  impossible  to  provide  church  facili¬ 
ties  for  them  in  the  chapel  we  have  already 
erected.  A  great  church  plant  is  a  necessity  which 
everyone  must  recognize. 

The  chief  street  in  Canton  is  called  “The  Bund.” 
The  people  who  stream  into  the  city  ride  or  walk 
along  this  street.  On  it  are  located  the  depart¬ 
ment  stores.  The  steamer  wharves  and  passenger 
boat  landings  are  on  the  Bund.  One  railroad  sta¬ 
tion  is  near  one  end  of  the  street  and  another  is 
near  the  other  end.  We  are  anxious  to  establish 
on  this  main  street  a  great  evangelistic  center. 
We  have  no  place  in  the  city  of  Canton  in  which 
to  preach  to  a  crowd.  We  could  get  great  crowds 
every  day  in  the  year  if  the  place  were  properly 


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handled.  The  foreign  missionaries  could  multiply 
their  influence.  One  of  the  missionaries  says: 
“It  grips  us  even  to  think  of  having  a  church 
placed  there.  What  a  stimulus  it  would  be  in  a 
thousand  ways!  Of  course,  it  would  require  a 
large  sum  of  money  to  buy  land  on  the  best  street 
in  Canton,  and  we  should  not  put  up  a  shabby 
building  on  such  a  street.  Night  school,  lectures, 
various  features  of  an  institutional  character 
would  be  included  in  the  work,  but  the  main  ob¬ 
ject  is  to  evangelize.”  $50,000  would  be  required 
to  erect  such  a  building. 

The  missionaries  are  exceedingly  anxious  to 
have  $11,000  for  the  Wai  Oi  Paat  church,  as  a 
memorial  to  Dr.  Graves,  who  labored  for  more 
than  fifty  years  in  South  China,  and  who  spent  a 
great  portion  of  his  life  laboring  in  connection 
with  this  church.  Such  a  memorial  would  be 
most  fitting,  and  peculiarly  so  when  we  remember 
that  this  church  has  been,  and  is  now,  one  of  the 
most  effective  evangelizing  centers  in  Canton. 

An  institution  of  general  character  located  in 
Canton  is  the  China  Baptist  Publication  Society. 
This  society  is  designed  to  provide  literature  not 
only  for  our  South  China  Mission,  but  for 
all  our  missions  in  China.  The  amounts  included 
in  the  list  of  needs  for  this  society  are  very  con¬ 
siderably  below  that  which  the  mission  requested. 
We  could  most  profitably  spend  twice  as  much  as 
is  included  for  it  here.  In  the  one  item  alone  of 
printing  and  circulating  the  Scriptures,  it  could 
profitably  spend  the  total  amount  which  is  re¬ 
quested  for  all  of  its  departments. 

NEW  FIELDS 

In  its  recent  meeting  the  South  China  Mission 
voted  unanimously  to  ask  the  Board  to  include 
in  the  five-year  program  the  opening  of  work  in 
five  new  fields. 

Kwei  Cheo  Province 


Chapel,  Land  and  Building 

$12,000 

Hospital,  Land  and  Building 

12.000 

Compound; 

Boys’  School 

5.000 

5.000 

Girls’  School 

5,000 

Book  Room 

2.000 

Three  Residences 

9,000 

Hunan  Province 

Chapel,  Land  and  Building  12,000 

Hospital,  Land  and  Building  12,000 

Compound  5,000 

Boys’  School  5,000 

Girls’  School  5,000 

Book  Room  2.000 

Three  Residences  9,000 

Yunan  Province 

Chapel,  Land  and  Building  12,000 

Hospital,  Land  and  Building  12.000 

Compound  5,000 

Boys’  School  5,000 

Girls’  School  5.000 

Book  Room  2.000 

Three  Residences  9,000 

East  River  Field 

Compound  Land  and  Wall  5.000 

Water  and  Sewerage  3.000 

Chapel  15.000 

Book  Room  3.000 

Three  Residences  13.500 

Kindergarten  and  Primary  School  3  000 

Woman’s  Bible  School  3,000 

Kiang  Si  Province 

Compound  Land  and  Wall  5.000 

Water  and  Sewerage  3,000 

Chapel  Book  Room  5.000 

Kindergarten  and  Primary  School  3.000 

Woman’s  Bible  School  3  000 

Three  Residences  13,500 


Fifty  thousand  dollars  is  asked  for  the  open¬ 
ing  of  each  of  these  new  mission  fields.  The  mis¬ 
sion  considers  this  to  be  its  most  important  ac¬ 
tion,  and  is  enthusiastic  for  the  execution  of  the 
project.  Multitudes  in  these  great  sections  await 
the  coming  of  the  messenger.  One  missionary 
voiced  the  sentiments  of  all  when  he  said:  “Our 
opportunities  are  limitless  and  the  needs  so  great 
that  they  just  swamp  us,  but  we  believe  in  the 
victory  at  home,  and  hope  for  more  equipment 
and  more  men  and  women.  How  wonderful  is 
our  Lord!” 

CHURCH  BUILDING  LOAN  FUND 

For  Entire  Mission  $40,000 

NEW  MISSIONARIES 

In  order  to  carry  out  the  plans  above  outlined, 
to  take  care  of  the  old  work,  and  to  provide  for 
the  opening  of  the  new  stations,  the  mission  esti¬ 
mates  that  the  following  missionaries  will  be  re¬ 
quired.  This  estimate  is  conservative: 


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Kweilin 

Man  for  Evangelistic  Work 
Single  Woman  for  Evangelistic  Work 
Man  for  Boys’  School  Work 
Single  Woman  for  Woman’s  Training  School 
Single  Woman  for  Girls’  School  and  Kindergarten 
Woman  Doctor 
Man  Doctor 
Wuchow 

Man  for  Evangelistic  Work 
Second  Man  for  Evangelistic  Work 
Single  Woman  for  Educational  Work 
Man  for  Educational  Work 
Second  Man  for  Educational  Work 
Three  Doctors 
Macau 

Family  for  Evangelistic  Work 
Shiu  Hing 

Two  Single  Women  for  Educational  Work 
Kong  Moon 

Family  for  Evangelistic  Work 
Single  Woman  for  Girls’  School 
Single  Woman  for  Woman’s  School 
Single  Woman  for  Kindergarten 
Doctor 
Yingtak 

Man  for  Evangelistic  Work 
Single  Woman  for  Evangelistic  Work 
Single  Woman  for  Girls’  School 
Single  Woman  for  Primary  School 
Single  Woman  for  Kindergarten 
Single  Woman  for  Woman’s  School 
Doctor  and  Family 
Canton 

Man  for  Evangelistic  Work  in  Hostel 

Two  Music  Teachers  for  Pooi  To 

One  Science  Teacher  for  Pooi  To 

Two  Normal  Teachers  for  Pooi  To 

One  Art  Teacher  for  Pooi  To 

Two  Men  for  Graves  Seminary 

Two  Single  Women  for  Pooi  In  Woman’s  School 


PAKHOI 

Pakhoi  is  our  newest  mission  in  China  and 
should  have  aid  as  soon  as  possible  in  order  to 
put  it  on  its  feet.  We  should  have  land  for  a 


Single  Woman  for  Kindergarten 
Single  Woman  to  Take  Charge  of  Woman’s  Train¬ 
ing  School 

Doctor  to  Serve  Compound  and  Work  in  Tung  Shan 
Baptist  Hospital 
Architect  for  Entire  Mission 
Business  Manager  and  Treasurer  for  Mission 
Man  for  Educational  Work  in  Pooi  Ching  Academy 
Kwei  Cheo  Province 

Family  for  Evangelistic  Work 
Single  Woman  for  Evangelistic  Work 
Doctor! 

Single  Woman  for  Educational  Work 
Man  for  Educational  Work 
Hunan  Province 

Family  for  Evangelistic  Work 

Single  Woman  for  Evangelistic  Work 

Doctor 

Single  Woman  for  Educational  Work 
Man  for  Educational  Work 
Yunan  Province 

Family  for  Evangelistic  Work 
Single  Woman  for  Evangelistic  Work 
Doctor 

Single  Woman  for  Educational  Work 
Man  for  Educational  Work 
East  River  Field 

Family  for  Evangelistic  Work 
Single  Woman  for  Evangelistic  Work 
Doctor  and  Family 
Family  for  Educational  Work 
Single  Woman  for  Primary  School 
Single  Woman  for  Woman’s  School 
Kiangsi  Province 

Family  for  Evangelistic  Work 
Single  Woman  for  Evangelistic  Work 
Doctor*  and  Family 
Family  for  Educational  Work 
Single  Woman  for  Primary  School 
Single  Woman  for  Woman’s  School 


MISSION 

compound,  a  residence  for  the  missionary  and  a 
chapel  in  which  he  would  do  his  work.  Our 
educational  work  should  also  be  strengthened. 


PROPERTY 

Land  for  Compound 
Church  Building 
Residence 
School  Building 


NEEDS 


$  2,500 

5,000 


4,000 

8,000 — $ 


19,500 


MISSIONARIES 

Family  for  Educational  Work 

Equipment  and  Outgoing  Expenses  ($650  per  Missionary)  1,300 

Grand  Total  $  20,800 


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Memorial  Window  to  John  Hus  in  the  Baptist  Church,  Prague 


EUROPE  AND  THE  NEAR  EAST 


SUMMARY  OF  NEEDS 

ITALY 

Land,  Buildings  and  Equipment  for  Nine  Churches  $  505,000 
Church  Building  Loan  Fund  75,000 

Publications  95,000 

Thirteen  Schools  52,000 

Miscellaneous  47,500 


CZECHO-SLOVAKIA 

Completion  of  Church  Building,  Prague  $  10,000 

Church  Building  Loan  Fund  25,000 


ESTIMATED  ADDITIONAL  EXPENDITURES 
Items  Under  Investigation 


t:i 


■$  774,500 

35,000 

2,773,450 


Grand  Total 


S3, 582, 950 


DESCRIPTION  OF  NEEDS 


HE  War,  just  closed,  has  burnt 
indelibly  into  the  consciousness 
of  the  whole  world  the  impor¬ 
tance  and  need  of  Europe.  To 
ignore  the  opportunity  of  giving  a  free  Gos¬ 
pel  to  Europe  in  this  day  when  that  Conti¬ 
nent  turns  to  America  for  leadership  would 
he  to  pass  over  one  of  the  greatest  opportu¬ 
nities  ever  presented  to  our  Baptist  people. 

As  early  as  1850  the  Foreign  Mission 
Board  directed  its  attention  to  Europe,  hut 
was  unable  to  enter  the  work  from  lack  of 
funds.  In  1870  William  N.  Cote,  M.D., 
then  a  worker  in  the  Latin  Quarter  of  Paris, 
was  appointed  missionary  of  the  Foreign 


Mission  Board  for  work  either  in  France  or 
Italy.  Before  he  chose  a  location,  the  Army 
of  Victor  Emanuel  entered  Rome  and  the 
gates  of  the  Eternal  City  were  thrown  open 
to  the  Gospel.  This  significant  event  became 
the  deciding  factor  in  locating  in  Rome  our 
first  Mission  in  Europe.  Dr.  George  B.  Tay¬ 
lor,  our  second  missionary  to  Italy,  entered 
the  work  in  March,  1873,  and  filled  a  mighty 
missionary  career  until  his  death  in  Septem¬ 
ber,  1907, — thirty-four  years. 

In  1913  we  undertook  work  in  Prague, 
Bohemia,  now  the  capital  of  the  new  State 
of  Czecho-Slovakia,  by  undertaking  the  sup¬ 
port  of  Josef  Novotny. 


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ITALIAN  MISSION 


ME  importance  of  saving  Italy  cannot 
be  over-estimated.  No  city  since  the 
fall  of  Jerusalem  lias  influenced  the 
religious  world  as  much  as  Rome 
has,  and  she  still  continues  to  do  so. 
The  Italian  mind,  which  had  been  liberalized 
greatly  just  preceding  the  war  by  the  Modernist 
Movement,  is  even  more  open  since  the  war  has 
closed.  The  day  of  opportunity  for  preaching  the 
Gospel  in  Italy  is  at  hand.  It  the  needs  of  Italy, 
enumerated  here,  are  met,  there  will  be  a  saving 
of  about  $75,000  on  Rents,  Elementary  Schools, 
Literature  and  Social  Work  during  the  five-year 
period.  This  saving  of  more  than  8  per  cent 
is  a  good  business  proposition,  to  say  nothing 
of  the  greater  efficiency  that  would  be  obtained  in 
our  work  by  possession  of  the  better  equipment. 


CHURCH  BUILDINGS 

A  Large,  Well-Located  Central  Building  in 
Rome  Which  Would  Serve  as  a  Church 
Building,  School  Rooms,  Headquarters 
for  Our  Publications,  Missionary  Resi¬ 
dence,  Circulating  Library  $200,000 

Additional  Books  for  Seminary  Library  2,000 

Church  Building,  Parsonage,  School  Rooms, 

Naples  60.000 

Church  Building,  Parsonage,  School  Rooms, 

Messina  40,000 

Church  Building,  Parsonage,  School  Rooms, 

Milan  75,000 

Church  Building,  Parsonage,  School  Rooms, 

Florence  50.000 

Church  Building,  Parsonage,  School  Rooms, 

Reggio  Calabria  25,000 

Church  Building,  Parsonage,  School  Rooms, 

Trieste  50.000 

Repairs  on  Church  Building,  Pordenone  4.000 

Church  Building  Loan  Fund  75.000 

Repairs  on  Church  Building,  Miglionico  1,000 


Church  buildings  represent  our  greatest  need 
in  the  matter  of  equipment.  We  are  greatly  handi¬ 
capped  for  lack  of  suitable  places  of  worship 
which  give  an  idea  of  permanence  and  serious¬ 
ness  to  our  work.  We  are  woefully  behind  all 
other  denominations  in  Italy.  It  is  especially  nec¬ 
essary  to  have  good  churches  in  Italy,  the  land 
of  imposing  buildings. 

SCHOOLS 

Elementary  Schools  or  Kindergartens  in 
Twelve  Centers  Where  the  Government 
Schools  Are  Not  Sufficient.  This  sum  in¬ 
cludes  Salaries  of  Teachers  and  Equip¬ 
ment  $50,000 

Elementary  schools  and  kindergartens  present 
one  of  the  most  needy  fields  which  promise  “quick 
results.”  The  European  war  has  left  many  or¬ 
phans  and  other  helpless  people  on  our  hands  who 
appeal  to  us  for  assistance.  These  schools  can  be 
converted  into  Sunday  schools,  as  has  already 
happened  in  several  places  where,  instead  of  the 
regular  lessons,  the  Sunday  school  lesson  is  sub¬ 
stituted  one  day  in  the  week. 


PUBLICATIONS 

Bilychnis,  Monthly  Magazine  $30,000 

New  Weekly  Journal  for  General  Propaganda 

Among  Masses  25,000 

II  Testimonio  and  11  Seminatore  10,000 

New  Books  (original  and  translations  dealing 
with  subjects  most  necessary  for  the  believ¬ 
ing  as  well  as  the  unbelieving  public.  An 
average  ol  one  volume  for  every  two 
months)  20,000 

Popular  Tracts  10,000 

Bilychnis,  our  monthly  magazine,  must  be  en¬ 
larged  and  improved  in  order  to  increase  its  al¬ 
ready  wide  usefulness.  The  printing  press  offers 
to  us  the  greatest  field  of  usefulness.  No  other 
denomination  has  such  a  hold  on  the  public  and 
no  other  can  supplant  or  successfully  rival  us  if 
we  furnish  adequate  means.  Competent  pastors 
are  sorely  needed  at  once,  but  it  takes  time  to 
prepare  them,  while  the  printing  press  opens  up 
to  us  immediately  unlimited  fields.  We  have 

already  acquired  the  friendship  and  in  some  cases 
the  hearty  co-operation  of  a  goodly  number  of 
Italy’s  best  thinkers. 


MISCELLANEOUS 

Two  Orphanages  (one  for  girls  and  one  for 

boysl  $30,000 

Home  for  Ten  Old  People  (Baptists)  10  000 

Secretaryship  at  Naples  for  Immigrants  7,500 

The  employment  of  a  man  in  Naples,  the  port 
from  which  the  majority  of  Italians  sail  for  the 
United  States,  and  through  which  many  of  them 
return  to  Italy,  would  be  a  splendid  stroke  in  the 
missionary  policy.  Such  a  man  could  render  great 
aid  to  immigrants  and  teach  them  the  meaning  of 
our  Baptist  work  in  Italy,  thus  performing  a  far- 
reaching  service  to  our  cause. 


Baptist  Church,  Altamura,  Italy 


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CZECHO-SLOVAKIA 

HIS  new  State  of  Czecho-Slovakia  is 
most  strategically  located  in  the  cen¬ 
ter  of  Europe.  At  one  time  it  was 
Protestant,  but  through  Romish  op¬ 
pression,  augmented  by  governmental 
despotism,  the  several  states  comprising  Czecho¬ 
slovakia  have  become  nominally  Roman  Catholic. 
The  nation  is  shot  through  and  through  with 
Protestant  sentiment.  Many  of  its  people  have 
been  to  America  and  understand  American  ideas 
of  democracy.  It  is  entirely  possible  to  win  for 
Protestantism  and  to  the  Baptist  faith  one  of 
the  most  virile  of  all  the  European  nations. 
The  percentage  of  literacy  is  higher  in  Bohemia 
than  in  any  other  European  State.  We  are  on 
the  ground,  ready  for  service. 

Before  the  war,  property  had  been  acquired  in 
Prague  and  the  local  church  had  assumed  large 
obligations.  Out  of  the  Judson  Centennial  Fund 
$3,000  was  sent  to  help  the  church  in  erecting  its 
building.  The  war  interfered  with  the  operations. 
It  is  necessary  now  that  the  building  be  completed 
and  a  burdensome  debt  paid.  We  ought  to  meet 
the  heroic  spirit  manifested  by  this  church  during 
the  stressful  war  times.  In  spite  of  hindrances,  it 
made  fine  progress. 

In  the  next  few  years  we  are  sure  to  witness 
great  progress  in  our  work  in  Czecho-Slovakia. 
It  will  be  necessary  for  many  of  the  twenty 
churches  already  organized  to  provide  themselves 
with  more  adequate  buildings,  and  many  congre¬ 
gations  to  be  organized  into  churches  will  also 
need  buildings  in  which  to  do  their  work.  It  is 
altogether  probable  that  the  Church  Building  Eoan 
Fund  here  specified  will  have  to  be  very  greatly 
augmented  during  the  years  just  before  us.  This 
is  the  opportune  time  for  us  to  enter  vigorously 
into  this  land  of  promise. 

Completion  of  Church  Building,  Prague  $10  000 

Church  Building  Loan  Fund  25,000 

OTHER  EUROPEAN  COUNTRIES 

While  the  Foreign  Mission  Board  has  in  hand 
a  volume  of  information  concerning  conditions  in 
Europe,  which  make  it  clear  that  during  the  next 
five  years  we  should  spend  several  million  dol¬ 
lars  in  reconstruction  work  in  Europe  and  in 
developing  work  already  organized,  the  Board 
does  not  feel  that  at  this  time  it  should  make 
final  detailed  announcements  concerning  the  work 
it  will  undertake  on  this  Continent.  At  present 
the  Board  has  in  Europe  a  commission  studying 
the  situation,  consisting  of  J.  F.  Love,  Z.  T.  Cody 
and  Missionary  Everett  Gill.  Whatever  may  be 
the  items  to  be  included  after  this  further  investi¬ 
gation,  it  is  clear  that  at  least  five  million  dollars 


should  be  spent  by  Southern  Baptists  in  Europe 
during  the  next  five  years. 

Touching  Czecho-Slovakia  to  the  southeast  are 
the  Balkan  States,  whose  importance  has  been 
horribly  emphasized  by  the  fact  that  they  pre¬ 
cipitated  this  great  war.  Conditions  in  the  Bal¬ 
kans  have  profoundly  influenced  the  politics  of 
Europe.  Surely  nothing  could  be  more  impor¬ 
tant  than  for  this  people  to  be  won  heartily  to 
the  Gospel. 

Russia  is  the  colossus  of  Europe.  It  is  larger 
than  all  other  countries  of  Europe  combined.  The 
population  of  this  vast  country  is  one  and  three- 
fourths  times  as  great  as  that  of  the  United  States. 
Twenty-five  different  languages  and  nationalities 
are  within  the  confines  of  Russia.  Theodore 
Roosevelt  said,  “No  nation,  so  much  as  Russia, 
holds  the  fate  of  the  coming  years.”  It  is  cer¬ 
tainly  true  that  no  other  nation  in  Europe  is  in 
greater  need  of  religious  and  intellectual  enlight¬ 
enment. 

There  are  now  in  Russia  approximately  one 
hundred  thousand  Baptists.  They  are  organized 
into  a  National  Baptist  Union.  Whenever  it  be¬ 
comes  possible  to  join  hands  with  these  brethren, 
we  can,  no  doubt,  help  develop  very  rapidly  a 
great  Baptist  work  in  Russia.  Not  only  in  Russia 
proper,  but  also  in  Siberia  there  has  developed  a 
very  promising  Baptist  work,  from  which  there 
will  surely  come  large  spiritual  returns,  when 
the  day  arrives  for  us  to  augment  their  efforts. 

There  will  probably  be  four  great  centers  in 
Europe  from  which  Baptist  missionary  effort 
will  radiate — Paris,  France;  Rome,  Italy; 
Prague,  Czecho-Slovakia;  and  one  of  the  great 
cities  of  Russia.  The  Foreign  Mission  Board  will 
certainly  conduct  operations  from  three  of  the 
great  centers  here  named.  It  is  not  yet  deter¬ 
mined  whether  it  will  undertake  work  in  France. 
Other  Baptist  bodies  have  outlined  work  for 
France  and  the  other  countries  of  Europe.  There 
will  be  made  a  comprehensive  plan  which  will 
undertake  to  preach  the  Gospel  as  we  see  it  to  the 
battle-torn  and  division-filled  nations  of  Europe. 

THE  NEAR  EAST 

The  Board  now  has  under  investigation  the  work 
in  the  near  East,  which  has  formerly  been  taken 
care  of  by  the  Illinois  Baptists.  $t  is  altogether 
probable  that  this  investigation  will  result  in  the 
Board  undertaking  to  do  work  in  Syria  and  Ar¬ 
menia.  This  addition  to  our  territory  will  great¬ 
ly  increase  our  expenses.  We  cannot  go  into 
its  details  now,  but  we  must  face  the  possibility 
of  spending  a  very  considerable  amount  of  money 
in  Syria  and  Armenia.  Our  hearts  turn  with  pe¬ 
culiar  interest  and  sentiment  to  the  opportunity 
and  privilege  of  preaching  the  Gospel  in  these 
lands  of  such  sacred  associations. 


4G 


Delegates,  Japanese  Baptist  Convention,  Kumamoto  Faculty  and  Students  of  Willingham  Memorial  School,  Fukuoka 


JAPAN  MISSION 

SUMMARY  OF  NEEDS 

NEW  PROPERTY 

Sixteen  Residences  for  Missionaries 
Land,  Buildings  and  Equipment  Eight  Schools 
Six  Church  Buildings 
Church  Building  Loan  Fund 
Publications 

NEW  MISSIONARIES 

Thirteen  Men  for  Evangelistic  Work 
Two  Single  Women  for  Evangelistic  Work 
Three  Men  for  Educational  Work 
Four  Single  Women  for  Educational  Work 
One  Man  for  Publication  Work 
Total  Number  of  Missionaries  (if  men  are  married),  40 

Equipment  and  Outgoing  Expenses  ( $600  per  missionary)  $  24,000 

Grand  Total  $  819,000 


$  99,000 

479,000 
107,000 
50,000 

60.000—$  795,000 


Japanese  Children 

47 


DESCRIPTION  OF  NEEDS 


HE  good  strategy  in  founding  our 
Japan  Mission  has  long  been  recog¬ 
nized  by  everybody.  Mission  en¬ 
deavor  in  behalf  of  this  most  vital 
nation  in  the  far  East  is  of  first  im¬ 
portance.  Since  this  is  known  to  be  true  by  all, 
it  is  the  more  strange  how  Southern  Baptists  have 
been  so  slow  in  developing  their  work  in  Japan. 

RESIDENCES  FOR  MISSIONARIES 

Land  and  Residence  for  Missionary,  Naga¬ 
saki  $  9,000 

Fifteen  Additional  Residences  for  Mission¬ 
aries  ($6,000  each)  90,000 

It  is  impossible  to  secure  satisfactory  residences 
for  our  missionaries  in  Japan.  The  native  houses 
are  built  in  such  a  way  that  it  is  hazardous  for 
our  missionaries  to  occupy  them.  It  is  essential 
that  the  missionaries  he  given  houses  which  will 
protect  their  health  and  lives. 

o 

V 


y 


—  Nut<osaki  — 

— Kumamoto 


Kagoshima—  3 


CHURCH  BUILDINGS 

Tokyo  Evangelistic  Plant — Land,  Residence 
for  Missionary,  Student  Hostel,  Church 


Building  $47,500 

Chapel.  Kokura  3,000 

Chapel,  Nagasaki  6,500 

Chapel,  Yawata  7,500 

Chapel,  Wakamatsu  7,500 

Chapel,  Kure  7,500 

Chapel,  Omuta  7,500 

Hakata  Evangelistic  Plant— Land,  Missionary 

Residence,  Parsonage,  Chapel  20,000 

Church  Building  Loan  Fund  50,000 


The  mission  has  suffered  untold  losses  through 
having  to  carry  on  its  evangelistic  work  in  rented 
quarters,  often  badly  located  and  held  upon  un- 


48 


certain  tenure.  The  expiration  of  a  lease  has 
sometimes  involved  the  loss  of  results  which  had 
been  won  by  years  of  toil.  During  the  first  two 
years  after  opening  the  work  in  Fukouka,  we  were 
forced  to  move  our  preaching  place  five  times  be¬ 
cause  the  landlord  refused  to  continue  to  rent  to 
us.  The  first  property  purchased  by  the  Japan 
Mission  was  paid  for  with  money  borrowed  by  the 
missionaries  on  their  own  responsibility.  This 
was  done  in  order  that  we  might  secure  a  preach¬ 
ing  place  from  which  we  could  not  be  driven  away. 
We  have  several  organized  churches  which  have 
no  meeting  houses.  None  of  these  churches  are 
yet  able  to  support  their  pastors,  so  we  cannot 
expect  them  to  provide  much  toward  the  cost  of 
church  buildings. 

The  importance  of  Southern  Baptists  occupy¬ 
ing  more  adequately  the  capital  of  the  empire, 
thus  saving  our  work  from  provincialism,  giving 
it  national  recognition  and  strengthening  it  as  a 
whole,  is  obvious.  However  much  we  may  in¬ 
crease  our  force  and  equipment  in  Kyushu  Island, 
unless  we  are  represented  in  Tokyo  our  work 
will  have  a  provincial  coloring  and  our  denomi¬ 
national  influence  will  be  necessarily  circum¬ 
scribed.  This  has  been  one  of  the  difficulties  un¬ 
der  which  Southern  Baptists  have  thus  far  labored 
in  Japan.  We  must  establish  our  work  in  Tokyo 
with  necessary  equipment.  Practically  every  de¬ 
nomination  in  Japan  has  necessary  equipment  and 
special  work  in  Tokyo  for  students.  In  addition 
to  this,  the  general  evangelistic  opportunities  are 
unlimited.  We  could  not  only  keep  in  touch  with 
the  students  who  go  from  Kyushu,  but  also  the 
members  who  go  from  our  various  churches. 
Without  this  personal  touch  we  shall  continue  to 
lose  many  who  are  sidetracked  in  Tokyo. 

PUBLICATIONS 

Literature  and  Publications  ($12,000  per 
year)  $60,000 

As  to  publications,  we  have  the  Christian  Jap¬ 
anese  to  produce  the  books;  we  have  well-equipped 
printing  concerns  to  do  our  printing  better  and 
at  far  less  cost  than  we  could  do  it  ourselves; 
we  have  a  well-organized  book  trade  as  a  channel 
for  circulation;  we  have  a  reading  public  which 
embraces  the  entire  nation,  we  have  a  fairly  good 
start  in  the  way  of  getting  in  touch  with  all  of 
the  above.  We  are  gathering  a  staff  and  laying 
out  our  work.  We  propose  to  use  about  $4,000 
a  year  for  the  employment  of  a  permanent  staff 
of  three  or  four  first-class  literary  men.  We  have 
already  secured  two.  We  want  to  put  every  dol¬ 
lar  available  into  the  production  and  circulation 
of  the  books.  At  the  expiration  of  the  five  years 
we  hope  to  show  a  balance  to  our  credit  for  more 
than  the  amount  appropriated. 

In  Japan  we  Baptists  are  far  behind  other  de¬ 
nominations  in  evangelistic  and  educational  work. 


Kagashima  Baptist  Church 


but  we  can  take  first  rank  in  publication  work,  if 
given  proper  support. 

SCHOOL  EQUIPMENT 

Southwestern  Academy  and  Seminary,  Fukuoka 


Main  Building,  Academy  $30,000 

Science  Building,  Academy  5,000 

Gymnasium,  Academy  2,000 

Residence  for  Dormitory  Master  2,000 

Dormitory  Building  15,000 

Five  Residences  for  Japanese  Teachers  12,000 
Wall  for  Compound  3,000 

Main  Building,  Seminary  15,000 

Dormitory,  Seminary  10,000 

Endowment  250.000 

Girls’  School,  Kumamoto 

Main  Building  30,000 

Dormitory  10,000 

Ladies’  Home  8,000 

Gymnasium  5,000 

Domestic  Science  5,000 

Music  and  Art  5,000 

Chapel  15,000 

Equipment  10.000 

Kindergarten  Training  School 

Land  10.000 

Residence  5.000 

School  Building  10,000 

Equipment  2,000 

Kindergarten,  Kagoshima  5,000 

Kindergarten,  Sasebo  5,000 

Two  Additional  Kindergarten  Schools  10.000 


The  Japanese  are  under  the  influence  of  so 
many  religions  and  the  religious  instruction  be¬ 
gins  at  such  an  early  age  that  it  is  desirable  that 
Christians  begin  working  with  the  children  and 
bring  them  under  Christian  influence  and  Chris¬ 
tian  teaching  as  early  as  possible.  Christian  kin¬ 
dergartens  will  prove  of  great  value.  A  mission¬ 
ary  says:  “May  the  day  soon  come  when 
we  shall,  through  our  Christian  kindergarten,  see 
many  of  the  children  leading  their  parents  to 


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Kindergarten  Children  at  Play,  Fukuoka 


church  to  worship  our  God.  The  day  is  dawning. 
In  the  last  two  weeks  we  have  had  several  to  come 
and  want  to  know  about  the  God  their  children 
had  1  earned  about  in  the  kindergarten.” 

We  beg  the  Board  to  grant  our  request  for  a 
first-class  boys’  school  in  Fukuoka.  It  will  taka 
money,  but  it  is  worth  while.  We  must  train  a 
well-educated  ministry.  Flelp  us  make  one  good 
school  for  boys  in  Fukuoka.  Lnless  we  do,  the 
union  school  will  get  all  the  students.  We  must 
have  several  men  to  help  teach  in  the  school. 
Give  us  men  well  trained  in  English.  If  possible, 
young  men  with  a  teachers’  training.  We  must 
make  our  English  department  superior  to  the 
government  schools  or  we  shall  not  get  the  stu¬ 
dents.  If  we  wish  to  win  Japan  for  Baptist  prin¬ 
ciples  we  must  educate  a  ministry  equal  to  the 
best.  At  present,  there  is  a  decided  feeling  that  if 
Christianity  wins,  the  country  will  not  be  able  to 
be  military  in  form.  There  is  much  opposition 
from  certain  quarters.  But  in  His  Name  we  shall 
conquer. 

Every  reason  which  holds  good  in  advancing  the 
cause  of  female  education  in  America  holds  good 
for  the  education  of  women  in  Japan.  In  fact, 
there  are  more  reasons  why  we  should  educate  our 
own  young  ladies  in  Japan  than  in  America.  The 
position  of  woman  in  the  home,  the  church,  the 
school  and  in  all  the  relations  of  life  is  largely 
determined  by  her  education.  This  is  pre-emi¬ 
nently  true  in  Japan,  where  her  education  has 
been  so  long  neglected.  Our  need  of  Christian 
teachers,  Christian  helpers  and  wives  for  our 
evangelists  and  Christian  young  men  emphasizes 
the  necessity  for  doing  this  training  ourselves,  or 
remaining  on  the  charity  list  to  other  denomina¬ 
tions.  Second  to  our  need  of  well-trained  evan¬ 
gelists  is  that  of  well-trained  women.  The  mis¬ 
sion  has  decided  to  begin  its  work  for  the  educa¬ 
tion  of  women  in  the  Girls’  School,  Kumamoto, 
and  urges  that  the  main  building  for  the  school 
be  provided  at  once. 


NEW  MISSIONARIES 

Man  for  Evangelistic  W'ork,  Kumamoto 
Man  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Omuta 
Man  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Yawata 
Man  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Iidzuka 
Man  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Kurume 
Man  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Saga 
Man  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Yramaguchi 
Man  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Hiroshima 
Man  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Okayama 
Man  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Tokyo 
Man  for  Evangelistic  W  ork,  Kagoshima 
Man  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Shanghai 
Two  Single  Women  for  Evangelistic  Work  in  Mis¬ 
sion 

Four  Single  Women  for  Educational  Work  in  Mis¬ 
sion 

Man  for  Publication  Work 

Three  Men  for  Educational  Work  in  Southwestern 
Academy  and  Seminary 


Baptist  Church,  Fukuoka 


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Faculty  and  Students  of  Saltillo  Theological  Seminary 


MEXICAN  MISSION 


PROPERTY 


SUMMARY  OF  NEEDS 


Residences  for  Seven  Missionaries 

Land,  Buildings  and  Equipment  for  Ten  Schools 

Publications 

Church  Building  Loan  Fund 


28,000 

205,000 

60,000 

125,000—; 


MISSIONARIES 

One  Man  for  Evangelistic  Work 
Three  Men  for  Educational  Work 

Total  Number  of  Missionaries  (if  men  are  married),  8 
Equipment  and  Outgoing  Expenses  ( $250  per  missionary) 

Grand  Total 


418,000 


2,000 

420,000 


Bible  Class  in  Panindicuaro,  Mexico 

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DESCRIPTION  OF  NEEDS 


N  spite  of  the  unrest  in  Mexico  dur¬ 
ing  the  last  six  years,  many  of  our 
churches  have  made  splendid  prog¬ 
ress.  The  evangelistic  fires  have 
burned  brightly,  and  one  of  the  most 
encouraging  facts  about  our  whole  mission  work 
has  been  the  success  that  has  attended  the  evan¬ 
gelistic  efforts  in  Mexico. 


RESIDENCES  FOR  MISSIONARIES 

For  Educational  Family,  Guadalajara  $4,000 

For  Evangelistic  Family,  Guadalajara  4,000 

For  Missionary,  Toluca  4,000 

For  Missionary,  Morelia  4,000 

For  Missionary,  Guaymas  4,000 

For  Missionary,  Culiacan  4,000 

For  Missionary,  Chihuahua  City  4,000 


The  difficulty  and  expense  of  securing  suitable 
residences  for  our  missionaries  in  Mexico  makes 
it  quite  necessary  for  us  to  provide  houses  for 
them.  It  is  good  economy  from  a  financial  stand¬ 
point  to  do  this.  It  is  quite  essential  to  provide 
home  comforts  for  the  hard-pressed  missionary  in 
order  that  he  may  preserve  his  strength  for  his 
trying  work.  The  thought  of  providing  comfort¬ 
able  homes  for  them  is  not  sentimental,  but  is 
very  practical  and  sensible.  This  thing  ought  to 
be  done  for  the  sake  of  the  work  and  the  worker. 

CHURCH  BUILDING  LOAN  FUND  $125,000 

It  is  very  necessary  to  stabilize  and  reinforce 
our  churches  in  Mexico.  To  this  end  it  is  pro¬ 
posed  to  create  a  Church  Building  Loan  Fund. 
There  are  now  as  many  as  thirty-six  of  our 
churches  which  could  be  encouraged  to  build  quite 
soon  if  each  one  of  them  could  be  aided  with  as 
much  as  from  SI, 000  to  $10,000.  The  church 
building  side  of  our  work  in  Mexico  has  been 
neglected  too  long.  We  have  reached  the  period 
when  something  very  extensive  must  be  done  along 
this  line.  The  Church  Building  Loan  Fund  re¬ 
quested  is  very  modest  when  the  needs  are  taken 
into  account. 

SCHOOL  EQUIPMENT 


Theological  Seminary  Building,  Aguas 

Calientes  (one-half  cost)  $20,000 

Buildings,  Boys’  High  School,  Aguas  Cal¬ 
ientes  (one-half  cost)  20,000 

Building,  Girls’  High  School,  Saltillo  (one- 

half  cost)  20,000 

Building,  Girls’  School,  Guaymas  25,000 

Building,  Boys’  School,  Culiacan  20,000 

Repairs  on  Buildings  for  School,  Chihuahua  5,000 
Repairs  and  Additional  Buildings,  School  at 
Torreon  15,000 

Buildings,  Boys’  School,  Toluca  20,000 

Buildings,  School  for  Boys  or  Girls,  Guad¬ 
alajara  30,000 

Buildings,  School  for  Boys  or  Girls,  Morelia  30,000 


The  Northern  and  Southern  Baptists  are  con¬ 
ducting  jointly  a  very  successful  and  satisfactory 
Bible  Training  School  in  Saltillo.  Even  under 
the  present  trying  circumstances  in  Mexico,  this 
school  is  succeeding  splendidly.  It  is  proposed 
to  locate  the  school  at  Aguas  Calientes.  which  will 
put  it  within  easy  reach  of  the  men  of  both  mis¬ 
sions.  There  we  will  have,  in  addition  to  the 
Bible  school,  a  high  school  for  the  literary  train¬ 
ing  of  the  young  men.  A  plant  is  necessary. 

It  has  been  decided  also  to  have  several  boys’ 
schools  of  the  grammar  school  grade,  from  which 
will  come  many  students  who  will  take  the  higher 
training  in  the  high  school  and  Bible  training 
school. 

It  will  be  necessary  to  reconstruct  our  school 
work  for  girls  in  Mexico.  In  this  reconstruction, 
which  we  hope  will  take  place  soon,  we  must 
have  at  least  one  good  girls’  school  of  the  high 
school  grade.  This  school  will  be  located  in  Sal¬ 
tillo.  The  school  property  which  our  Board  owns 
at  Saltillo  has  been  commandeered  by  the  Mexi¬ 
can  government,  and  greatly  abused.  Our  North¬ 
ern  Baptist  brethren  will  join  with  us  in  the 
support  of  this  high  school  in  Saltillo,  and  to¬ 
gether  we  will  renovate  the  girls’  school  building 
and  make  it  into  a  great  school  plant.  When  we 
recall  that  60  per  cent  of  the  people  in  Mexico 
are  illiterate,  we  can  realize  how  necessary  it  is 
to  build  schools  amongst  them. 

MEXICAN  BAPTIST  PUBLISHING  HOUSE 

Lot  and  Building  $40,000 

Additional  Equipment,  Publishing  House  20.000 

One  of  the  crowning  successes  of  our  work  has 
been  the  Mexican  Baptist  Publishing  House,  now 
temporarily  removed  to  El  Paso,  Texas.  This 
great  institution  is  scattering  literature  amongst 
Spanish-speaking  people  in  the  West,  Southwest, 
in  Mexico,  Cuba  and  South  American  countries. 
It  will  eventually  be  moved  back  into  Mexico, 
where  we  must  provide  for  it  land,  buildings  and 
equipment.  The  thirst  for  truth  which  has  arisen 
in  this  new  day  has  opened  an  absolutelv  unlimited 
field  to  evangelical  literature. 

NEW  MISSIONARIES 

Man  for  Educational  Work,  Guadalajara 
Man  for  Evangelistic  Work,  Guadalajara 
Man  for  Educational  Work,  Morelia 
Man  for  Educational  Work,  Pacific  Coast  Field 

The  trying  experiences  in  the  last  fewT  years 
have  developed  the  native  ministry  very  rapidly, 
but  we  are  in  great  need  of  several  more  capable 
foreign  missionaries,  who  will  provide  leadership 
and  training  for  these  native  men.  The  time  seems 
to  have  come  for  us  to  greatly  strengthen  our  mis¬ 
sionary  force  in  Mexico. 


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CHRISTIAN  EDUCATION 

SUMMARY  OF  NEEDS 


Debts 

Buildings 

Land 

Equipment 

Endowment 

Southwide  Educational  Institutions 
Current  Support  and  Boards  of  Education 
Ministerial  Education 


$  832,811.89 
6,790,066.00 
175,000.00 
1,024,800.00 
9,769,838.11 
3,000,000.00 
375,000.00 
165,000.00 


*Grand  Total 


$22,132,516 


CHRISTIAN  EDUCATION 


N  THE  tombstone  marking  the  grave 
of  Luther  Rice  are  two  inscriptions, 
— “Than  he  no  man  possibly  ever 
did  more  for  the  cause  of  missions.” 
"Than  he  no  Baptist  ever  did  more 
for  the  cause  of  Education.”  Let  missions  and 
education  go  hand  in  hand — let  us  give  not  to 
one,  merely,  but  to  both.  One  cannot  study  the 
situation  in  our  schools  without  being  deeply  im¬ 
pressed  with  three  things: 

1.  We  have  as  the  heads  of  these  various  insti¬ 
tutions  men  and  women  of  the  very  highest  ideals, 
the  most  loyal  Christianity  and  the  most  un¬ 
quenchable  desire  to  give  the  spiritual  as  well  as 
the  intellectual  message  to  their  students.  The 
spirit  of  sacrifice  manifested  by  these  leaders  may 
he  cloistered  somewhat,  but  is  none  the  less  real 
everywhere. 

In  many  colleges  professors  are  remaining  at 
great  financial  sacrifice,  because  they  love  their 
institutions.  It  would  embarrass  greatly  the  col¬ 
leges  for  these  men  to  leave,  not  only  because  of 
the  loss  of  their  personal  worth,  but  because  the 
institutions  would  not  he  able  to  secure  new  men 
at  the  salaries  now  paid  and  are  not  able  to  make 
an  increase  for  this  item  of  expense. 

The  fine  ideals  of  these  men  are  splendidly 
stated  by  one  of  them  in  the  following  language: 

“All  courses  of  study  of  a  distinctively  Chris¬ 
tian  and  religious  character  should  be  an  integral 
part  of  the  curriculum  in  which  is  organized  a 
liberal  education  and  not  loosely  related  to  a 
curriculum  of  liberal  studies  merely  as  a  parallel 
school  or  department.  Also  the  college  will  en¬ 
deavor  to  make  Christian  every  course  it  teaches. 
The  world  needs  from  Baptist  colleges,  imbued 
with  the  Baptist  spirit,  informed  in  Baptist  prin¬ 
ciples  and  instructed  in  the  Word  of  God,  sci¬ 


entists  in  all  callings  who  will  carry  into  these 
fields  of  effort  the  best  culture,  classic,  religious 
and  scientific,  embodying  the  best  values  of  the 
past  and  of  modern  times.  Latin,  Greek,  the  New 
Testament,  Physics,  Chemistry,  Biology,  History 
and  Philosophy, — all  have  their  part  in  the  edu¬ 
cation  of  the  modern  Baptist. 

“The  above  described  policy  is  in  line  with  the 
very  highest  standards  and  the  best  experience  of 
American  college  education.  It  is  very  expensive. 
Careful  and  extended  studies  by  experts  have 
brought  forth  the  conclusion  that  the  modern  col¬ 
lege  must  have  not  less  than  $2,000,000  endow¬ 
ment  to  care  for  a  minimum  of  five  hundred  stu¬ 
dents.” 

2.  Nothing  but  the  sacrificial  optimism  of  the 
school  men  and  the  denominational  loyalty  of 
our  people  could  have  kept  many  of  these  schools 
open.  We  can  depend  upon  both  of  these  aids 
to  our  schools  to  a  reasonable  degree  in  the  fu¬ 
ture,  but  it  is  unfaithful  to  our  college  leaders, 
traitorous  to  our  growing  sons  and  daughters  and 
subversive  of  the  loyalty  of  our  Baptist  people  to 
so  conduct  our  schools  at  this  poor  dving  rate 
when  we  are  able  to  do  much  better.  It  will  be 
a  superior  aid  to  our  denomination,  our  children 
and  our  school  men  for  us  to  provide  the  equip¬ 
ment  and  endowment  necessary  to  make  these 
schools  first  class.  The  only  method  of  making 
our  schools  sufficiently  strong  to  meet  the  present 
day  demands  is  by  thoroughgoing  equipment. 

3.  The  equipment  in  most  of  our  institutions 
is  pitifully  inadequate  in  face  of  the  needs  and 
opportunities.  Hosts  of  students  are  clamoring 
for  admittance  into  our  schools  and  a  great  many 


’The  excess  over  the  original  apportionment  to  Chris¬ 
tian  Education  is  due  to  some  adjustments  of  the  ap¬ 
portionment  in  certain  states. 


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are  being  turned  away  because  of  lack  of  build¬ 
ings  and  equipment.  What  are  we  going  to  do 
with  these  fine  boys  and  girls?  Are  we  going 
to  set  them  adrift?  Are  they  not  worthy  of  the 
very  best  training  and  the  very  best  facilities  for 
securing  that  training?  Must  the  training  and 
facilities  for  securing  it  be  inferior  to  that  to  be 
found  elsewhere,  just  because  these  boys  and  girls 
happen  to  be  Baptists? 

The  survey  reveals  that  the  immediate  needs 
of  our  Baptist  schools  cannot  be  met  by  the  $20,- 
000.000  allotted  to  education  in  the  75  Million 
Campaign.  Of  course,  this  amount  will  change 
wonderfully  the  character  of  our  schools,  but  the 
school  men  have  enumerated  immediate  needs 
over  and  above  the  school  apportionment  in  the 
75  Million  Campaign,  amounting  to  $5,360,000. 
Besides  this,  forty  buildings  are  specified  upon 
which  no  amount  is  estimated.  An  urgent  call 
is  made  for  a  great  deal  more  equipment  and 
endowment  without  indicating  the  amount. 


In  the  section  of  this  survey  on  Christian  Edu¬ 
cation  attention  is  directed,  first,  to  the  Southwide 
institutions,  namely:  The  Board  of  Education, 
Southern  Baptist  Theological  Seminary,  South¬ 
western  Baptist  Theological  Seminary,  Baptist 
Bible  Institute,  the  Woman’s  Missionary  Union 
Training  School,  Louisville,  Kentucky,  the 
Woman’s  Training  School,  Fort  Worth,  Texas, 
the  Negro  Theological  Seminary  and  other  insti¬ 
tutions  to  be  helped  in  states  where  Baptists  are 
not  strong.  $3,000,000  will  be  raised  for  these 
Southwide  objects. 

The  second  section  of  the  Educational  survey 
is  devoted  to  the  various  colleges  and  schools 
which  are  to  benefit  by  the  fund. 

One  hundred  and  twelve  schools  are  to  receive 
aid  from  the  75  Million  Campaign.  This  number 
includes  thirty-seven  Mountain  Schools  that  are 
listed  under  the  Mountain  School  section  of  the 
Home  Mission  Board  Survey. 


THE  EDUCATION  BOARD  OF  THE  SOUTHERN 
BAPTIST  CONVENTION 


HE  Education  Board  of  the  Southern 
Baptist  Convention  was  created  by 
the  Convention  at  its  session  in  At¬ 
lanta,  May,  1919.  This  Board  is  the 
outgrowth  of  the  Commission  on 
Education,  which  had  been  serving  the  Conven¬ 
tion  for  several  years.  The  Board  was  established 
upon  the  recommendation  of  the  Commission, 
which  had  studied  thoroughly  the  educational 
needs  of  Southern  Baptists  and  had  come  to  the 
conclusion  that  an  Education  Board  was  a  neces¬ 
sity. 

The  headquarters  of  the  new  Board  was  estab¬ 
lished  in  Birmingham,  Alabama.  Soon  after  the 
Convention,  the  Board  met  for  organization  and 
elected  Rev.  J.  E.  Dillard,  pastor  of  the  South- 
side  Baptist  Church,  Birmingham  to  act  tempor¬ 
arily  as  Corresponding  Secretary.  The  Board  at 
once  took  up  its  great  task. 

The  work  of  the  Education  Board  is  admirably 
stated  in  the  following  paragraphs  by  Dr.  Rufus 
W.  Weaver. 

“Our  Baptist  task  is  the  enthronement  of  Jesus 
over  all  the  world.  Our  resources  for  the  accom¬ 
plishment  of  this  task  are  evangelical  religion, 
Christian  education,  and  the  gifts  which  the  peo¬ 
ple  of  God  are  willing  to  make  for  religion  and 
for  education.  To  further  all  education,  and  es¬ 
pecially  Christian  education,  the  Education  Board 
of  the  Southern  Baptist  Convention  has  been  es¬ 
tablished. 

“The  scope  of  the  work  to  be  accomplished  by 
the  Board  is: 


“To  mobilize  the  Baptists  of  the  South  in  the 
interest  of  education; 

“To  awaken  in  the  thinking  of  Baptist  fathers 
and  mothers  an  appreciation  of  higher  education 
which  shall  lead  them  to  make  personal  sacri¬ 
fices  to  send  their  children  to  the  high  school  and 
to  college; 

“To  create,  to  foster,  to  support  and  to  further 
in  every  possible  way  the  interests  of  the  educa¬ 
tional  institutions  which  the  Baptists  of  the  South 
have  established,  to  the  end  that  they  may  more 
perfectly  realize  the  highest  standards  of  a  dis¬ 
tinctively  successful  Christian  school; 

“To  cooperate  with  all  the  existing  state  agen¬ 
cies  of  our  denomination  engaged  in  the  promo¬ 
tion  and  support  of  our  Baptist  educational  in¬ 
stitutions; 

“To  participate  enthusiastically  in  the  Baptist 
75  Million  Campaign  for  the  purpose  of  uniting 
all  Southern  Baptists  in  one  supreme  effort  by 
which  all  Baptist  enterprises  shall  be  adequately 
supported;  one  definite  goal  of  this  effort  being 
to  raise  $20,000,000  for  Christian  Education  in 
five  years;  the  inspiration  of  this  endeavor  being 
the  acknowledged  need  of  trained  Christian  lead¬ 
ers  and  the  imperative  demand  that  in  the  new 
era  upon  which  we  are  entering  the  Baptist  in¬ 
terpretation  of  Christianity  shall  have  a  world¬ 
wide  presentation  to  a  distracted  world. 

“Briefly  stated,  the  work  of  the  Baptist  Educa¬ 
tion  Board  shall  be  the  promotion  of  education 
throughout  the  South  under  Baptist  auspices,  and 
for  distinctively  Christian  ends.” 


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Norton  Hall,  Southern  Baptist  Theological  Seminary,  Louisville,  Ky. 


THE  SOUTHERN  BAPTIST  THE¬ 
OLOGICAL  SEMINARY 

LOUISVILLE,  KENTUCKY 
E.  Y.  Mullins,  President 

The  appeal  of  the  Seminary  to  the  denomina¬ 
tion  is  based  upon  the  following  great  consid¬ 
erations: 

The  need  for  training  men  for  leadership. 
This  has  always  been  true  of  Baptists,  but  it  has 
never  been  so  emphasized  as  it  is  today,  with 
the  new  conditions  of  Missions  at  home  and 
abroad,  with  the  new  demands  for  Evangelism 
and  all  the  great  demands  of  the  Kingdom. 

The  strategic  position  which  the  Seminary  oc¬ 
cupies  in  relation  to  the  South.  It  has  supplied 
a  very  large  part  of  the  leadership  in  the  past. 
It  bears  the  closest  kind  of  relations  to  our 
Southern  work.  Its  faculty  are  men  who  thor¬ 
oughly  know  and  thoroughly  sympathize  with 
the  plans  and  ideals  of  Southern  Baptists. 

By  reason  of  its  scholarship  and  standing  in 
the  world  of  learning,  the  Seminary  makes  a 
tremendous  appeal  for  reinforcement.  Its  learn¬ 
ing  is  not  of  the  radical  destructive  type  but  of 
the  constructive,  evangelical,  orthodox  type 
which  believes  in  the  Bible  and  believes  in  the 


Divinity  of  Christ  and  holds  steadfastly  to  all 
the  evangelical  fundamentals. 

The  position  of  the  Seminary  as  a  missionary 
center.  No  man  can  attend  it  and  catch  its 
spirit  without  being  thoroughly  missionary  in 
every  fibre.  Missions  are  its  very  heart  and 
life. 

The  students’  fund  appeal  is  of  tremendous 
urgency.  Thousands  of  young  men  are  unable  to 
pay  their  own  way  through  the  Seminary.  They 
are  men  who  ought  to  have  Seminary  training. 
They  are  men  qualified  in  many  cases  by  college 
course,  but  who  are  left  in  debt  and  unable  to 
continue  their  theological  studies.  The  reinforce¬ 
ment  of  this  fund  will  mean  a  larger  number  of 
men  in  training  for  the  ministry  and,  consequent¬ 
ly,  a  larger  number  of  qualified  leaders  for  our 
churches. 

A  Building  Fund  is  also  an  urgent  need.  This 
is  owing  to  conditions  in  the  heart  of  the  city 
where  the  Seminary  is  located.  A  new  location 
has  been  purchased  and  as  soon  as  a  Fund  which 
ought  to  he  for  not  less  than  One  Million  Dol¬ 
lars  is  raised  for  building  purposes  the  new 
buildings  will  be  begun. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 

Endowment  of  Students’  Fund  $500,000 


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Men’s  Dormitory,  Southwestern  Baptist  Theological  Seminary,  Fort  Worth,  Texas 


SOUTHWESTERN  BAPTIST  THE¬ 
OLOGICAL  SEMINARY 

FORT  WORTH,  TEXAS 

L.  R.  Scarborough,  D.D.,  President 

This  institution  was  founded  by  Dr.  B.  H.  Car- 
roll  in  1906  and  was  located  from  then  until 
1910  in  connection  with  Baylor  University  at 
Waco,  Texas.  Its  first  trustees  were  appointed 
by  the  Baptist  General  Convention  of  Texas.  Its 
trustees  are  appointed  now  by  the  conventions  of 
the  following  ten  states:  Texas,  New  Mexico, 
Louisiana,  Arkansas,  Oklahoma,  Southern  Illi¬ 
nois,  Mississippi,  Tennessee,  Kentucky  and 
Florida. 

It  has  a  faculty  of  twenty-two  men  and  women 
and  gives  instruction  in  all  the  branches  of  theo¬ 
logical  education,  with  special  emphasis  upon 
practical  matters  of  evangelism,  religious  educa¬ 
tion.  gospel  music,  kindergarten,  and  has  a  very 


free  department  of  correspondence.  It  has  a  de¬ 
partment  of  missionary  training  for  women, 
young  women  preparing  for  missions  and  other 
kingdom  work,  and  for  the  wives  of  preachers. 
It  has  a  day  nursery  for  the  young  children  of 
preachers,  thus  enabling  preachers’  wives  to  get 
all  the  advantages  of  this  instruction.  Its  enroll¬ 
ment  in  October,  1919,  was  more  than  400. 

Its  instruction  is  loyal  to  all  the  fundamentals 
dear  to  Southern  Baptists  and  manifestly  taught 
in  the  Word  of  God.  It  aims  to  turn  out  scholar¬ 
ly,  practical  and  efficient  workers  in  all  lines  of 
Kingdom  work,  seeking  to  make  all  of  its  stu¬ 
dents  evangelistic  and  missionary,  and  is  warmly 
in  sympathy  with  everything  fostered  bv  South¬ 
ern  Baptists. 

It  has  more  than  one  million  dollars  worth  of 
property  in  buildings,  lands,  equipment  and  en¬ 
dowment. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 

Endowment  $700,000 


Administration  Building,  Baptist  Bible  Institute,  New  Orleans,  La. 


BAPTIST  BIBLE  INSTITUTE 

NEW  ORLEANS,  LOUISIANA 
B.  H.  DeMent,  President 

The  Baptist  Bible  Institute  is  a  training  school 
for  Christian  leaders  in  all  departments  of  church 
life. 

It  is  a  child  of  earnest  prayer  and  signal  provi¬ 
dences.  It  is  co-educational.  It  is  supported  by 
the  Home  Mission  Board,  Sunday  School  Board 
and  various  state  conventions.  Providentially, 
we  have  secured  the  historic  Sophie  Newcomb 
College  property,  eight  buildings  in  all.  costing 
about  $175,000,  worth  for  our  purpose  half  a 
million. 

We  have  a  strong  faculty  of  ten  members. 
One,  two  and  three-year  courses  are  offered. 
The  Bible  is  enthroned  in  all  our  work,  and  there 
are  thorough  courses  in  Christian  history,  Chris¬ 
tian  doctrine,  Christian  music,  personal  work  and 
evangelism,  church  problems,  Sunday  school 
pedagogy,  church  business,  etc.  Vital  courses  in 
French,  Italian  and  Spanish.  Practical  activities 
are  graded  as  carefully  as  intellectual  achieve¬ 
ments.  Its  location  gives  the  school  all  the  basal 
significance  of  home  missions  and  all  the  spiritual 
romance  of  foreign  missions. 

IIOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 

Indebtedness  on  Property,  Eight  Buildings  $100,000 


Interest  on  Deferred  Payments  20,000 

Alterations — Equipment  of  Buildings  20,000 

Purchase  of  Additional  Property  50,000 

Library — Equipment  and  Books  15,000 

Gymnasium — Equipment  and  Upkeep  2,000 

Infirmary  3,000 

Emergency  Fund  15,000 

Permanent  Endowment  275.000 


THE  NEGRO  THEOLOGICAL 
SEMINARY 

NASHVILLE,  TENNESSEE 
O.  L.  Hailey,  President 

While  there  are  several  schools  among  the 
negroes  that  give  theological  training,  and  do  it 
well  so  far  as  they  are  prepared  to  go,  there  is 
no  distinctly  theological  seminary  among  these 
people.  They  are  aspiring,  and  very  industrious 
in  making  their  preparation  for  their  work.  Many 
take  post  graduate  training  in  some  of  the  more 
important  white  universities.  It  will  be  of  great 
advantage  to  them  to  have  a  school  of  their  own. 

The  Commission  from  the  Southern  Baptist 
Convention  has  placed  Dr.  O.  L.  Hailey  in 
charge  of  the  undertaking.  Nashville  is  pre¬ 
paring  to  offer  a  suitable  site  for  the  institu¬ 
tion.  But  that  will  simply  be  the  ground.  Suit¬ 
able  buildings,  should  be  erected  as  rapidly  as 
possible.  Then  there  must  be  provided  a  fund 
with  which  to  support  the  school.  The  National 
Baptist  Convention  (with  which  we  are  co-operat¬ 
ing)  will  put  $100,000  into  the  school.  They  al¬ 
ready  have  a  school  in  connection  with  Roger 
Williams  University  which  is  giving  training  to 
both  preachers  and  women  workers.  This  will 
not  in  any  way  interfere  with  the  plans  for  the 
seminary. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 

Main  Building  (Chapel)  $100,000 

Two  Dormitories  (One  for  Men  and  One  for 

Women)  50,000 

A  Power  and  Light  Plant  25,000 

Furnishings  25,000 


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Total 


$500,000 


Total 


$200,000 


Woman’s  Missionary  Union  Training  School,  Louisville,  Ky. 


BAPTIST  WOMAN’S  MISSIONARY 
UNION  TRAINING  SCHOOL 

LOUISVILLE,  KENTUCKY 
Mrs.  Maude  R.  McLure,  Superintendent 

On  October  1,  1907,  this  school  was  opened. 
Its  purpose  is  to  train  the  women  God  has  called 
into  His  service  in  the  different  forms  of  Chris¬ 
tian  work — home  and  foreign  missions,  Sunday 
school  and  city  mission  work,  pastor’s  assistants 
and  Woman’s  Missionary  Union  Work.  Already 
over  all  the  world  over  700  young  women  have 
gone  from  this  school  to  “tell  the  old,  old  story.” 

The  future  of  this  school  is  as  bright  as  the 
promises  of  God,  if  adequate  expansion  and 
ample  support  are  provided.  Already  the  ca¬ 
pacity,  120  students,  is  taxed,  and  the  Woman’s 
Missionary  Union,  having  just  arrived  at  what 
seemed  the  mountain  top  of  achievement,  faces  a 
new  crisis.  Our  allotment  in  the  75  Million  Cam¬ 
paign  will  help  us  meet  this  crisis. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Addition  to  Dormitory  and  Dining  Room  •?  75,000 
Additional  Equipment  25,000 

Endowment  200.000 


Total  $300,000 


RIDGECREST  ASSEMBLY 

RIDGECREST,  NORTH  CAROLINA 
L.  T.  Mays 

Ridgecrest  Baptist  Assembly,  located  at  Ridge¬ 
crest,  N.  C.,  has  been  allotted  $50,000  by  the  Edu¬ 
cation  Board  in  the  apportionment  to  Southwide 
objects.  We  need  this  money  for  equipment  and 
the  payment  of  debts. 

Ridgecrest  capitalizes  for  God  the  recreational 
spirit.  It  is  located  amidst  the  highest  mountains 


between  the  Alps  and  the  Rockies  in  the  center 
of  the  Southern  Baptist  Convention.  It  conducts 
various  Assemblies  and  religious  schools  for  three 
summer  months.  It  had  this  year  A.  C.  Dixon,  G. 
Campbell  Morgan,  W.  B.  Riley,  President  Gam- 
brell  and  twenty  other  leading  preachers  on  its 
program.  The  attendance  reached  twenty-five 
hundred  from  twenty-two  states.  It  is  becoming 
the  Southern  Baptist  Northfield. 

HOWARD  COLLEGE 

BIRMINGHAM,  ALABAMA 

Chas.  B.  Williams,  President 

Howard  College,  founded  in  1842,  one  of  the 
historic  Baptist  colleges  of  the  South,  makes  a 
mighty  appeal  to  the  denomination.  It  has  grad¬ 
uated  over  600;  has  given  to  the  world  a  half 
dozen  foreign  missionaries;  has  trained  twenty 
college,  university  and  seminary  professors  and 
presidents;  five  of  her  sons  have  been  distin¬ 
guished  editors  and  authors;  two  have  been  state 
governors;  while  hundreds  have  been  useful  and 
honored  physicians,  lawyers,  statesmen,  mer¬ 
chants,  farmers  and  manufacturers.  Now  How¬ 
ard,  with  400  students,  is  facing  a  splendid  future 
and  with  the  new  dormitory,  new  athletic  build¬ 
ing,  new  industrial  building  and  new  religious 
education  building,  and  with  a  million  dollars 
endowment,  which  the  75  Million  Campaign  will 
help  to  furnish. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Administration  Building 

$  75.000 

Dormitory 

70.883 

Endowment 

200.000 

Current  Expenses 

65.000 

Ministerial  Education 

25.000 

Laboratory  Apparatus 

5.000 

Total 

1440,883 

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Main  Building,  Howard  College,  Birmingham,  Ala. 


JUDSON  COLLEGE  BAPTIST  COLLEGIATE 

MARION,  ALABAMA  INSTITUTE 


Paul  V.  Bomar,  President 

The  oldest  denominational  school  for  young 
women  the  Baptists  have  is  Judson  College,  Ma¬ 
rion,  Ala.  It  has  property  including  eight  build¬ 
ings  worth  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  million  dol¬ 
lars,  but  is  in  great  need  just  now  of  more  money 
for  endowment  and  additional  equipment.  It  is 
a  school  of  distinction  with  a  bright  future,  and 
may  it  not  be  the  school  has  some  special  claims 
on  the  denomination? 

It  is  our  oldest  school,  having  been  established 
in  1838.  It  has  never  yet  closed  its  doors,  not 
even  during  the  troublous  period  of  the  Civil  War 
when  Noah  K.  Davis,  the  great  teacher  and 
scholar,  was  President. 

It  is  named  after  Ann  Hasseltine  Judson,  and 
stands  pre-eminently  for  the  inculcation  of  the 
mission  spirit,  for  loyalty  to  the  highest  Baptist 
ideals. 

All  its  years  have  been  years  of  successful  work. 
Each  year  many  young  women  have  been  sent 
from  its  walls,  to  make  the  world  brighter  and 
better. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Land 

■I  5,000 

New  Buildings  and  Repairs 

120.833 

Faculty  Expansion 

25.000 

Laboratory  and  Library 

15.000 

Payment  of  Debts 

35.000 

Endowment 

215.000 

Total 

5415.833 

NEWTON,  ALABAMA 
Len  F.  Rutledge,  President 

From  the  standpoint  of  scholarship,  we  give 
all  that  can  be  had  anywhere  and  insist  upon 
thoroughness.  We  give  the  classical,  scientific 
and  professional  courses  leading  to  graduation, 
and  special  courses  in  music,  expression,  business 
and  teacher  training.  One  can  prepare  here  for 
college,  business  life,  teaching,  for  medical  col¬ 
lege,  for  farming,  storekeeping  or  for  the  life 
which  we  all  must  live,  no  matter  how  we  choose 
to  make  the  living.  Our  Bible  work  is  required 
of  all  to  graduate  in  any  course. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Repairing  School  Building  $  5.000 

Administration  and  Faculty  Expansion  25.000 

Additional  Equipment  1.000 

Various  Debts  2,000 

Ministerial  Students’  Fund — Five  Years  3.750 


Total  $36,750 


OUACHITA  COLLEGE 

ARKADELPHIA,  ARKANSAS 

Chas.  E.  Dicken,  President 

For  over  thirty  vears  Ouachita  College  has  been 
a  central,  vital  factor  for  Arkansas  Baptists.  She 
has  furnished  preachers,  teachers  and  educated 
Christian  men  and  women  for  our  churches  and 
communities,  all  of  which  service  has  been  ren¬ 
dered  with  meager  equipment  and  at  a  cost  of 
great  sacrifice  on  the  part  of  men  and  women  who 
have  given  of  their  time  and  lives  to  the  develop¬ 
ment  of  the  institution  for  the  sake  of  the  com¬ 
mon  cause.  The  appeal  of  the  institution  is 
founded  on  the  unparalleled  opportunity  which 


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Judson  College,  Marion,  Ala. 


our  time  affords.  The  opportunity  before  us  is 
our  great  appeal. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Girls’  Dormitory 

$150,000 

College  Dining  Hall 

25,000 

Central  Heating  Plant 

30,000 

Repairs  and  Equipment 

60,000 

Science  Building 

35,000 

Endowment 

250,000 

Total 

$550,000 

CENTRAL  COLLEGE 

CONWAY,  ARKANSAS 
J.  W.  Concer,  President 

Central  College  makes  its  appeal  as  the  Baptist 
training  camp  for  Baptist  girls.  We  have  a  great 
call  for  leaders  in  every  field  of  activity.  A  call 
comes  from  every  quarter  for  women  of  high  cul¬ 
ture,  self-poise  and  self-control,  with  intellectual 
and  spiritual  power.  Central  College  makes  its 
appeal  for  help  that  she  may  emancipate  thou¬ 
sands  of  young  women  of  Baptist  homes  in  Arkan¬ 
sas  from  ignorance  and  the  tyranny  of  weakness. 
The  question  with  our  denomination  now  is — will 
we  make  any  large  effort  to  accommodate  the 
young  women  who  are  knocking  at  our  doors  for 
preparation  for  religious  service? 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Conversion  of  Present  Building  Into  Dormi- 


tory 

$  30,000 

Administration  Buildi 

ng 

100,000 

Laboratories,  Library, 

Furniture 

25,000 

Expansion  of  Faculty 

5,000 

Endowment 

15,000 

Land 

25.000 

Total 

$200,000 

JOHN  B.  STETSON  UNIVERSITY 

DE  LAND,  FLORIDA 

Lincoln  Hulley,  President 

John  B.  Stetson  University  at  De  Land,  Fla., 
is  co-operating  heartily  with  the  Southern  Baptist 
Convention  in  its  triumphant  drive  forward  in 
the  name  of  Jesus  Christ,  our  Divine  Lord  and 
Master,  in  missions,  education  and  human  uplift. 
Stetson  was  founded  by  Baptist  leaders.  It  has 
a  strong  Baptist  charter  and  is  always  to  have  a 
majority  of  its  trustees  chosen  from  Florida  Bap¬ 
tists,  who  are  approved  by  the  Convention.  There 
are  no  unsettled  problems  between  Stetson  and 
the  Convention.  Both  are  in  entire  agreement, 
working  harmoniously  and  are  very  enthusiastic 
in  this  Seventy-five  Million  Dollar  Drive.  In 
addition  to  the  state  apportionment  shown  here, 
Stetson  will  receive  $100,000  from  the  Southwide 
portion  of  the  75  Million  Fund. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 

Endowment  $125,000 

MERCER  UNIVERSITY 
MACON,  GEORGIA 
Rufus  W.  Weaver,  President 

Mercer  University  was  established  in  1833,  pri¬ 
marily  for  the  training  of  young  ministers.  Dur¬ 
ing  these  years  this  institution  has  done  more 
for  the  development  of  the  Baptists  of  Georgia 
than  any  other  agency.  From  her  halls  have  gone 
into  the  ministry  and  into  all  learned  professions 
men  who  have  been  the  leaders  of  the  common¬ 
wealth.  Mercer  men  have  made  an  unsurpassed 
contribution  to  the  religious  development  of  the 
South. 


GO 


Central  College,  Conway,  Ark. 


The  present  administration  is  seeking  to  make 
Mercer  University  the  ideal  Christian  institution. 
Not  only  do  we  seek  to  create  a  Christian  atmos¬ 
phere  and  to  give  the  Christian  interpretation  of 
the  subjects  that  are  taught,  but  we  seek  primarily 
to  impart  Christian  truth  to  the  end  that  the  Chris¬ 
tian  purpose  may  be  regnant  in  the  life  of  every 
Mercer  man. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 

Endowment  $925,000 

BESSIE  TIFT  COLLEGE 

FORSYTH,  GEORGIA 

J.  H.  Foster,  President 

Bessie  Tift  College  appeals  to  the  Baptists  of 
Georgia  because  of  its  loyalty  to  the  Bible;  the 
requirement  that  all  students  shall  take  systematic 
Bible  study  throughout  their  college  course; 
every  member  of  the  teaching  corps  must  be  a 
Christian;  its  insistence  upon  thoroughness  in 
teaching;  its  effort  to  provide  adequate  equipment 
for  thorough  work  in  the  various  departments; 
its  requirement  that  every  regular  student  shall 
have  at  least  fifteen  hours  of  class-room  work  per 
week;  its  demand  that  the  conduct  of  students 
and  teachers  shall  be  consistent  with  real  Chris¬ 
tian  culture  and  character,  and  the  complete  sub¬ 
serviency  of  the  total  life  and  work  of  the  institu¬ 
tion  toward  the  execution  of  the  Great  Commis¬ 
sion. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Buildings  $  75,000 

Additional  Equipment  25,000 

Endowment  270,000 

Total  $370,000 


SHORTER  COLLEGE 

ROME,  GEORGIA 
A.  W.  VanHoose,  President 

When  the  Floyd  County  Association  heard  that 
Shorter  College  would  probably  participate  in  the 
Campaign,  its  apportionment  by  unanimous  vote 
was  raised  from  one  hundred  and  fifteen  to  two 
hundred  thousand  dollars.  Shorter  has  not  been 
under  the  control  of  the  Georgia  Baptist  Conven¬ 
tion,  but  our  Education  Board  will  recommend 
to  the  Convention  that  she  be  made  a  member  of 
the  Mercer  System  and  allowed  a  share  in  the 
benefits  of  the  Campaign.  Shorter  occupies  a 
commanding  position  in  Baptist  educational  cir¬ 
cles.  A  splendid  campus,  fireproof  buildings,  un- 
ards  commend  the  college  to  Baptists  everywhere, 
usual  equipment,  strong  faculty  and  high  stand- 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 

Endowment  $185,000 

GEORGIA  ACADEMIES 

There  are  seven  Baptist  high  schools  in  the 
Mercer  University  System.  They  are  Locust 
Grove,  Norman  Institute,  Brewton-Parker  Insti¬ 
tute,  Gibson-Mercer  Academy,  Hearn  Academy, 
Piedmont  Institute,  Chattahoochee  High  School, 
and  the  Mary  P.  Willingham  Institute.  Every 
church  in  Georgia,  except  a  small  section,  is  with¬ 
in  ninety  miles  of  a  Baptist  school.  Eight  hun¬ 
dred  students  are  in  these  schools.  Nearly  two 
hundred  men  and  women,  former  students,  are 
now  in  colleges — enough  in  themselves  to  form  a 
college.  These  schools  are  our  organized  means 
of  reaching  the  intellectual  life  at  the  adolescent 
stage.  They  are  our  witness  to  the  need  of  re- 


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ligious  training  for  the  youth  of  from  twelve  to 
twenty  years.  These  are  a  mighty  influence  for 
the  salvation  of  students  and  the  production  of  the 
highest  character  and  consecration  of  life  service 
to  God  and  man. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 
Buildings  for  Four,  Equipment  and  Enlarge¬ 
ment  for  All,  Moderate  Current  and  En¬ 
dowment  Funds  $277,500 

The  Mary  P.  Willingham  Institute  Is  an 
Industrial  School,  Located  at  Blue  Ridge, 

Ga..  and  Is  to  Receive  67,500 

Total  $345,000 

EWING  COLLEGE 

EWING,  ILLINOIS 

H.  M.  Tipsword,  Dean 

The  greatest  need  of  our  Illinois  Baptist  State 
Association  is  a  well-equipped  and  well-endowed 
institution  of  learning.  We  have  the  promise  of 
such  an  institution  in  Ewing  College.  It  is  ours 
and  we  can  make  it  what  it  needs  to  be.  In  this 
great  Campaign  is  our  opportunity.  If  we  reach 
the  amount  apportioned  to  us  we  shall  in  five 
years  have  received  about  $370,000  for  education. 
If  all  this  can  go  into  Ewing  College,  the  rest  will 
be  easy.  For  us  to  fail  would  be  both  a  calamity 
and  a  sin.  Let  us  not  fail. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Dormitories 

$  14,400 

Gymnasium 

7,200 

College  Building 

86,400 

Laboratories.  Furniture,  etc. 

3,600 

Administration  and  Faculty  Expansion 

36,000 

Debts 

14.400 

Endowment 

108,000 

Ministerial  Student  Fund 

2,000 

Total  $272,000 


GEORGETOWN  COLLEGE 

GEORGETOWN,  KENTUCKY 
M.  B.  Adams,  President 

Georgetown  College  appeals  to  the  Baptists  of 
Kentucky  for  money  to  enable  it  to  serve  the  de¬ 
nomination  as  an  institution  necessary  to  the  ad¬ 
vancing  work  of  the  churches,  to  help  in  the  mat¬ 
ter  of  full  obedience  to  the  letter  and  spirit  of 
the  Great  Commission;  to  furnish  hiehlv  trained 
and  cultured  men  and  women  for  the  greatest  of 
all  human  enterprises,  that  of  world  conquest  for 
Christ;  to  furnish  Kentucky  Baptists  with  the  in¬ 
strumentality  to  perform  an  educational  task  pro¬ 
portionate  to  their  needs  and  powers;  to  help 
meet  the  want  of  human  society  for  Christian 
education;  to  give  to  mankind  highly  developed 
Christian  personality;  to  interpret  to  humanity 
the  redemptive  democracy  of  Christ  and  the  New 
Testament;  and  to  bring  honor  and  glory,  through 
the  achievements  of  capable  workers,  to  the 
World’s  Redeemer. 

HOW'  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 

Endowment  $600,000 

Debts  100,000 

Total  $700,000 

BETHEL  COLLEGE 

RUSSELLVILLE,  KENTUCKY 

Geo.  F.  Dasher,  President 

Bethel  College,  in  her  seventy  years,  has  lifted 
many  a  poor  country  boy  to  a  position  of  in¬ 
fluence  and  service  in  pulpit,  in  college  faculties, 
in  seminary  halls,  in  the  business  offices  of  the 
South,  and  in  the  harvest  fields  of  foreign  lands. 
So,  too,  has  she  been  the  influence  to  call  to  lives 
of  Christian  service  many  unbelieving  students, 


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who  have  entered  her  class  rooms  and  added  to 
our  denomination  great  numbers  of  influential 
men  who  otherwise  might  have  been  lost,  not 
only  to  the  Baptists,  but  to  Christ,  our  Great  Re¬ 
deemer.  Bethel’s  territory  is  Western  Kentucky 
and  North  Central  Tennessee. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Wing  to  Recitation  Building  $  25,000 

Equipment.  Laboratories  and  Library  5,000 

Indebtedness  15.000 

Permanent  Endowment  and  Improvements  155,000 


Total  8200.000 


LOUISIANA  COLLEGE 

PINEVILLE,  LOUISIANA 

C.  COTTINCHAM,  PRESIDENT 

W  ith  the  tremendous  amount  of  attention  now 
being  centered  on  education  in  the  State,  no  Chris¬ 
tian  body  can  grip  the  State  unless  it  is  strong 
educationally.  Louisiana  College  is  the  only  Bap¬ 
tist  college  in  the  State.  It  is  not  too  much,  there¬ 
fore.  to  say  that  in  a  very  real  way  the  hope  of 
the  success  of  evangelical  Christianity  in  Louis¬ 
iana  is  in  Louisiana  College.  The  somewhat  over 
one  million  dollars  which  the  success  of  the  Bap¬ 
tist  75  Million  Campaign  will  bring  will  make 
Louisiana  College  the  peer  of  any  institution  in 
the  State.  To  fail  in  this  auspicious  moment  will 
be  calamitous — to  succeed  will  be  glorious. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Administration  Building 

$200,000 

Boys'  Dormitory 

40.000 

Girls’  Dormitory 

40.000 

Dining  Room  and  Gymnasium 

5o;ooo 

Central  Heating  Plant 

25.000 

Remodeling  Girls'  Dormitory 

10  000 

Equipment 

35.000 

Administrative  and  Faculty  Expansion 

70,000 

Ministerial  Students’  Fund 

5.000 

Amount  for  Endowment 

600.000 

Total  $1,075,000 


MISSISSIPPI  COLLEGE 

CLINTON,  MISSISSIPPI 

J.  W.  Provine,  President 

The  hour  has  struck  for  Southern  Baptists  to 
put  forth  the  most  gigantic  effort  of  all  their  his¬ 
tory  to  place  their  Christian  schools  on  a  firm 
footing.  The  need  was  never  more  pressing.  The 
opportunity  was  never  more  far-reaching.  Mis¬ 
sissippi  College  makes  an  urgent  appeal  for  a 
share  in  the  amount  set  apart  for  our  Christian 
schools,  a  share  commensurate  with  the  service 
rendered  to  the  denomination  and  the  present 
needs.  The  college  was  born  in  1828  and  has 
graduated  more  than  a  thousand  men.  It  has 
touched  manv  thousands.  No  other  one  human 
agency  has  contributed  so  much  to  the  unpre¬ 
cedented  growth  of  the  Baptist  denomination  in 
Mississippi.  Some  of  our  pressing  needs  are: 
First,  an  enlarged  teaching  force;  second,  in¬ 
creased  library  and  scientific  equipment,  and 
third,  greater  dormitory  accommodations  to  meet 
these  needs  adequately.  A  million  dollars  en¬ 
dowment  is  absolutely  imperative. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 

Equipment  $  50.000 

Endowment  200.000 

Total  $250,000 

BLUE  MOUNTAIN  COLLEGE 

BLUE  MOUNTAIN,  MISSISSIPPI 

W.  T.  Lowrey,  President 

At  the  beginning  of  this  the  forty-seventh  an¬ 
nual  session  Blue  Mountain  College  has  largely 
overflowed  and  many  fine  girls  have  been  turned 
away  for  lack  of  room.  We  need  a  new  Fine 
Arts  building,  a  Science  building,  more  dormi¬ 
tory  room,  a  larger  dining-room  and  kitchen. 
Without  these  additions,  many  of  the  finest  girls 


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of  the  country  will  knock  at  our  doors  in  vain. 

But  the  school  needs  to  be  made  better  as  well 
as  bigger.  We  need  endowment.  We  must  have 
teachers  equal  to  the  best,  and  we  must  have  full 
recognition  from  the  leading  universities  of  the 
land.  Shall  we  make  room  for  our  girls?  Shall 
we  give  them  the  best?  Will  Baptists  fail  now 
in  the  presence  of  the  greatest  opportunity  of 
their  history?  God  forbid! 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 

Additional  Buildings  $250,000 

MISSISSIPPI  WOMAN’S  COLLEGE 

HATTIESBURG,  MISSISSIPPI 

J.  L.  Johnson,  President 

Mississippi  Woman’s  College  needs  at  once 
more  dormitory  room.  Over  one  hundred  girls 
were  turned  away  last  season.  We  are  turning 
away  every  day  now  Baptist  girls  who  are  anxious 
to  attend  a  Baptist  school.  Give  us  the  room  and 
in  ten  years  the  Woman’s  College  will  have  leav¬ 
ened  every  church  and  community  in  Mississippi. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 

Dormitories  $250,000 


CLARKE  MEMORIAL  COLLEGE 

NEWTON,  MISSISSIPPI 

T.  A.  J.  Beasley,  President 

Clarke  Memorial  College  is  the  only  Junior 
Baptist  College  in  the  State,  in  a  section  of  the 
State  where  such  a  college  is  badly  needed.  It 
gets  the  boys  and  girls  who  have  finished  high 
school  but  are  not  ready  for  the  higher  institu¬ 
tions  and  trains  them  during  the  character-form¬ 
ing  period.  It  is  run  on  the  co-operative  plan, 
which  makes  it  possible  for  the  student  of  small 
means  to  attend.  It  has  graduated  one  hundred 
students,  all  of  whom  are  making  good.  It  is 
strictly  loyal  to  the  Baptist  faith  and  teaches  it 
daily.  It  offers  two  years  in  Bible  before  gradua¬ 
tion.  No  pupil  graduates  who  does  not  hold  Sun¬ 
day  school  and  B.  Y.  P.  U.  diplomas.  Many 
young  preachers  are  educated  here. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 

Endowment  $100,000 

Repair  Chapel,  Repair  and  Furnish  Girls' 
and  Boys'  Dormitories,  Erect  House  for 
President  and  Cottages  for  Preachers  and 
Equip  the  College  Farm  25.000 

Total 


$125,000 


Men's  Dormitory,  Louisiana  College,  Pineville,  La. 


WILLIAM- J EWELL  COLLEGE 

LIBERTY,  MISSOURI 
J.  P.  Greene,  President 

Seventy  years  ago  there  were  practically  no 
educated  leaders  in  the  Baptist  ranks  of  Mis¬ 
souri.  Our  people,  especially  a  few  noble  lay¬ 
men,  saw  their  weakness,  and  resolved  to  found 
William  Jewell,  for  the  purpose  of  supplying 
able  leaders  in  all  walks  of  life,  and  especially 
in  the  ministry.  I  am  proud  of  the  men  educated 
at  William  Jewell.  Most  of  them  have  stood  the 
test!  But  William  Jewell  is  weak.  It  has  never 
had  half  enough  money  to  meet  demands.  Its 
faculty  are  pious  and  able  men,  true  to  Jesus 
Christ  and  His  Word,  and  men  of  sacrificial  devo¬ 
tion.  Now  the  time  has  come  to  put  the  college 
on  high  ground.  It  has  been  weak  too  long.  I 
want  to  see  it  stand  out  clear  and  imposing  on 
the  educational  horizon— an  institution  that  will 
attract  the  attention  of  all  good  people — a  great 
Christian  college,  doing  complete  and  thorough 
college  work  and  doing  it  in  the  spirit  of  Jesus 
Christ. 

NEEDS  TO  BE  MET* 

Endowment  $1,000,000 

STEPHENS  COLLEGE 

COLUMBIA,  MISSOURI 
J.  M.  Wood,  President 

Stephens  College  was  in  1870  adopted  by  the 
General  Association  as  Missouri’s  State  school 
for  young  women.  Its  location  at  the  educational 
center  of  the  State,  where  the  State  University  is 
situated,  is  favorable  to  its  success  as  a  junior 
college.  It  has  beautiful  property,  near  the  heart 


of  the  city,  valued  at  $300,000.  The  attendance 
has  so  far  overtaxed  facilities  that  provision  has 
had  to  be  made  for  housing  fully  one  hundred 
of  them  in  private  buildings.  The  organization 
of  a  Bible  Department,  under  the  control  of  an 
able  administrator,  is  one  of  the  special  features 
of  this  institution,  whose  educational  standards 
are  the  highest. 

NEEDS  TO  BE  MET* 

Buildings  and  Increase  in  Endowment  $500  000 

HARDIN  COLLEGE 

MEXICO,  MISSOURI 
John  W.  Million,  President 

Harding  College  has  been  recognized  as  a  Bap¬ 
tist  institution  since  its  beginning  in  1873.  Har¬ 
din  has  stood  for  the  development  of  Christian 
character.  It  has  laid  stress  on  missionary  train¬ 
ing  all  along.  A  number  of  its  alumnae  are  serv¬ 
ing  as  home  and  foreign  missionaries.  The  de¬ 
partment  of  religious  education  in  Hardin  was 
the  first  in  any  college  in  Missouri  and  the  first 
in  a  junior  college  anywhere.  This  department 
was  established  in  1911.  It  has  a  special  library 
on  psychology,  pedagogy  and  the  Bible.  Hardin 
has  an  endowment  fund  now  of  $100,027.  Hardin 
will  remain  a  junior  college. 

NEEDS  TO  BE  MET* 

One  Dormitory 
A  Central  Healing  Plant 
A  Common  Dining  Room  in  Sections 
An  Academic  Building 
Endowment 


♦Note. — On  account  of  the  Missouri  Plan,  the  needs  here  listed  will 
be  provided  jointly  by  the  75  Million  Campaign  and  the  campaign  con* 
ducted  by  our  Northern  Baptist  brethren.  It  was  not  possible  to  indi¬ 
cate  the  exact  amount  that  will  be  apportioned  in  the  75  Million 
Campaign. 


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LA  GRANGE  COLLEGE 

IIANNIBAL,  MISSOURI 

John  W.  Crouch,  President 

La  Grange  College  is  advantageously  located 
amid  scenery  of  surpassing  beauty  and  in  a  sec¬ 
tion  which  provides  the  kind  of  students  that 
make  fine  Baptists.  It  has  a  remarkable  record 
for  efficiency.  Money  invested  here  brings  big 
returns.  The  value  to  Baptists  and  to  the  world 
of  men  and  women  whom  La  Grange  College  has 
discovered  and  educated  cannot  be  expressed  in 
dollars.  For,  while  they  have  turned  millions  of 
dollars  into  denominational  causes,  their  spiritual 
ministry  has  been  more  valuable.  There  were 
twenty  ministerial  students  this  year.  A  new  era 
of  enlargement  has  been  begun  to  meet  imme¬ 
diate  imperative  needs. 

NEEDS  TO  BE  MET* 

Men’s  Dormitory  and  Endowment  $300,000 

WILL  MAYFIELD  COLLEGE 

MARBLE  HILL,  MISSOURI 

A.  F.  Hendricks,  President 

Will  Mayfield  College  is  an  accredited  junior 
college,  located  in  a  great  territory  whose  re¬ 
sources  have  been  hardly  touched.  It  is  very 
rich  in  Baptist  opportunity.  The  present  endow¬ 
ment  is  over  $100,000  and  the  buildings  are 
valued  at  $50,000.  We  must  have  more  buildings 
and  better  equipment.  We  only  have  one  dormi¬ 
tory.  Our  appeal  is  for  $300,000. 

NEEDS  TO  BE  MET* 

For  Buildings  and  Equipment  $250,000 

For  Endowment  50,000 

Total  $300,000 


SOUTHWEST  BAPTIST  COLLEGE 

BOLIVAR,  MISSOURI 
J.  C.  Pike,  President 

Southwest  Baptist  College  stands  on  the  very 
frontier  of  Southern  Baptist  territory,  on  the 
north  slope  of  the  Ozarks.  It  has  the  largest  en¬ 
rollment  in  thirty  years;  a  large  number  of  minis¬ 
terial  students;  crowded  classes  in  Sunday  school, 
B.  Y.  P.  U.,  and  Bible  Work.  It  made  more  Sun¬ 
day  school  awards  last  year  than  any  other  Bap¬ 
tist  school  in  our  State.  It  is  the  only  Baptist 
school  in  the  southwest  third  of  the  State.  There 
are  only  three  other  colleges  in  this  territory. 
Proper  financial  support  will  give  Southern  Bap¬ 
tists  a  strong  college  in  a  most  strategic  territory. 
We  must  have  dormitories  and  endowment. 

NEEDS  TO  BE  MET 


Debts 

$  15,000 

Equipment  and  Repairs 

5,000 

Boys’  Dormitory 

20,000 

Girls’  Dormitory 

30,000 

Endowment 

200,000 

Total 

$270,000 

WAKE  FOREST  COLLEGE 

WAKE  FOREST,  NORTH  CAROLINA 

W.  L.  Poteat,  President 

Born  eighty- five  years  ago  in  consecration  to 
the  rvill  of  God  for  the  redemption  of  mankind, 
it  has  come  to  be  a  great  enterprise,  counting 
six  thousand  students  and  1,970  graduates.  The 
ground  of  its  present  appeal  to  the  denomination 
is  its  unshaken  loyalty  to  the  ideals  and  aims 
which  controlled  its  beginnings. 

♦Note. — On  account  of  the  Missouri  Plan,  the  needs  here  listed  will 
be  provided  jointly  by  the  75  Million  Campaign  and  the  campaign  con¬ 
ducted  by  our  Northern  Baptist  brethren.  It  was  not  possible  to  indi¬ 
cate  the  exact  amount  that  will  be  apportioned  in  the  75  Million 
Campaign. 


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There  is  no  limit  to  the  contribution  which  it 
can  make  to  the  growing  Kingdom  of  God  but 
its  ability  to  house  comfortably  and  teach  well 
the  young  men  who  in  increasing  numbers  will  be 
knocking  at  its  doors.  It  stands  in  the  presence 
of  an  opportunity  without  precedent.  The  demo¬ 
cratic  reconstruction  of  the  new  time  must  be 
guided  by  enlightenment  under  the  restraints  and 
motives  of  religion.  That  is  precisely  what  Wake 
Forest  stands  for.  It  can  take  no  backward  step 
now.  It  must  advance  upon  its  widening  oppor¬ 
tunity  with  an  equipment  and  teaching  body  equal 
to  the  best,  and  its  output  will  continue  amply 
to  justify  all  that  Baptists  may  be  led  of  God  to 
put  into  it. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 

Indebtedness  $  70,411.89 

Endowment  229,588.11 

Total  $300  000.00 

MEREDITH  COLLEGE 

RALEIGH,  NORTH  CAROLINA 
Chas.  E.  Brewer,  President 

Meredith  College,  located  in  the  heart  of  the 
city  of  Raleigh,  N.  C.,  was  founded  for  the  pur¬ 
pose  of  promoting  the  interests  of  the  Kingdom 
of  God.  It  proposes  to  do  this  by  giving  to 
young  women  training  such  as  their  brothers 
secure  in  the  standard  colleges  of  the  South,  at 
the  same  time  affording  such  an  atmosphere  as 
will  preserve  and  develop  Christian  character  and 
denominational  loyalty. 

The  appeal  that  the  college  makes  is  for  equip¬ 
ment  to  enable  it  to  enlarge  its  capacity  for  do¬ 


ing  good.  Young  women,  desiring  the  training 
offered  at  Meredith,  are  seeking  admission  in 
larger  numbers  than  can  at  present  be  received. 
A  valuable  asset  to  the  college,  to  the  denomina¬ 
tion  and  to  the  cause  of  Christ,  is  being  lost. 
Dormitories  in  which  to  shelter  students,  and 
laboratories  and  class  rooms  in  which  to  teach 
them,  are  urgently  needed. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Land 

$  20.000 

Dormitory 

60  000 

Science  Hall 

50.000 

Equipment 

15,000 

Endowment 

121,000 

Debts 

34,000 

Total  $300,000 


CHOWAN  COLLEGE 

MURFREESBORO,  NORTH  CAROLINA 
John  B.  Brewer,  President 

Chowan  College  will  expect  two  hundred  thou¬ 
sand  dollars  as  its  part  of  the  75  Million  Cam¬ 
paign — one-fourth  to  be  expended  on  equipment 
and  the  balance  in  endowment.  The  college  has 
largely  made  the  Chowan  section  of  North  Caro¬ 
lina  what  it  is  and  the  school  is  dependent  upon 
the  denomination  for  support. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 

Equipment  $  50.000 

Endowment  100.000 

Total  $150  000 


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NORTH  CAROLINA  BAPTIST 
HIGH  SCHOOLS 

There  are  fourteen  Baptist  academies  or  high 
schools  in  North  Carolina.  They  are  Dell  School, 
Delway;  Liberty-Piedmont  Institute,  Wallburg; 
Mountain  Park,  Park  Mountain;  Winterville  High 
School,  Winterville;  Wingate  High  School,  Win¬ 
gate;  Boiling  Springs  School,  Boiling  Springs; 
Round  Hill  Academy,  Union  Mills;  Yancey  Col¬ 
legiate  Institute,  Burnsville;  Hayvvood  Institute, 
Clyde;  Fruitland  Institute,  Hendersonville; 
Mitchell  Collegiate  Institute,  Bakersville;  Sylva 
Collegiate  Institute,  Sylva;  Mars  Hill  College, 
Mars  Hill;  Mountain  View  Institute,  Hays. 

These  schools  are  found  chiefly  in  the  mountain 
region.  They  had  an  enrollment  last  year  of  a 
little  over  two  thousand  students.  All  of  them 
are  in  great  need  of  better  equipment. 

North  Carolina  Baptists  will  raise  $250,000, 
which  is  to  be  used  for  the  benefit  of  these  various 
high  schools. 

The  Home  Mission  Board  is  helping  in  the  sup¬ 
port  of  eight  of  these  schools  and  has  included 
them  in  the  five-year  program  for  a  total  of 
$348,000. 

OKLAHOMA  BAPTIST  UNIVERSITY 

SHAWNEE,  OKLAHOMA 

J.  A.  Tolman,  President 

Oklahoma  Baptist  University  is  at  the  threshold 
of  opportunity.  It  has  an  excellent  faculty,  its 
field  is  unlimited.  It  has  more  students  now 
than  it  can  provide  for.  We  must  have  a  half 
million  dollars.  The  dormitory  for  girls  is 


crowded  and  girls  are  being  turned  away.  There 
is  urgent  necessity  for  an  additional  dormitory. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Dormitory  for  Girls 

$  75,000 

Dormitory  for  Boys 

50,000 

Endowment 

200.000 

Administration  Building 

75.000 

Science  Building  and  Library 

75,000 

Improvement  of  Grounds  and  Debt 

25,000 

Total 

$500,000 

FURMAN  UNIVERSITY 

GREENVILLE,  SOUTH  CAROLINA 
W.  J.  McGlothlin,  President 

Furman  University  is  an  old  and  highly 
honored  institution.  It  has  no  debts  and  no  skele¬ 
tons  coming  out  of  its  history.  It  is  firmly  knit 
into  the  life  of  South  Carolina  Baptists.  They 
love  it  and  send  their  sons  to  it,  but  for  some 
inexplicable  reason  they  have  not  put  their  money 
into  it  as  might  have  been  expected.  But  there 
are  gratifying  signs  of  rising  interest  and  the 
Baptists  of  South  Carolina  seem  now  determined 
to  put  Furman  upon  a  sound  financial  basis. 
Applications  of  students  are  now  pouring  in  upon 
us  and  the  outlook  is  for  more  men  than  we  can 
take  care  of  in  our  dormitories  next  year.  Cer¬ 
tainly  we  shall  have  to  put  some  of  them  in  rooms 
in  town.  Our  primary  need  is  money,  and  more 
money,  and  yet  more  money  and  still  more  money. 
With  money  we  can  make  this  institution  one  of 
the  greatest  in  all  the  South. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 

Buildings  $250,000 

Endowment  500,000 

Total  $750,000 


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GREENVILLE  WOMAN’S  COLLEGE 

GREENVILLE,  SOUTH  CAROLINA 
David  M.  Ramsey,  President 

Good  learning  for  all  Baptists  is  a  worthy  con¬ 
ception,  but  most  appealing  is  adequate  educa¬ 
tion  for  all  our  young  women.  Educate  a  man 
and  you  educate  a  unit;  educate  a  woman  and 
you  educate  a  group.  Never  in  the  world’s  his¬ 
tory  did  any  people  rise  above  the  level  of  its 
women.  Now  is  the  time  to  remember  our  age¬ 
long,  neglected,  unendowed  women’s  colleges. 
Shall  we  seize  the  passing  steed  by  the  forelock? 
The  challenge  is  blood-stirring,  and  in  a  new 
and  unique  fashion  the  Baptists  are  on  trial. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 

Endowment  $200,000 

ANDERSON  COLLEGE 

ANDERSON,  SOUTH  CAROLINA 
John  E.  White,  President 

Anderson  College  has  not  made  its  wonderful 
development  of  three  years  past  by  making  ap¬ 
peals  for  itself.  “Not  to  be  served,  but  to  serve” 
is  the  insistent  emphasis  of  its  character  and  the 
sharp-cut  quality  of  its  education.  It  conceives 
itself  an  instrument  which  will  be  loved  and  sup¬ 
ported  according  to  the  good  it  does.  Along  three 
great  lines  its  strategy  is  directed:  First,  to  main¬ 
tain  and  define  its  identity  with  Jesus  Christ,  the 
Kingdom  of  God  on  earth,  and  the  Baptist  people. 
Second,  to  put  Christian  power  and,  therefore, 
Christian  leadership,  in  a  practical  way,  into  the 
State,  especially  through  the  public  schools. 
Third,  to  seek  and  to  find  young  women  who  need 
and  deserve  to  be  sought  and  found,  and  then 
helped  in  securing  an  education. 


HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 
New  Buildings — Dormitory,  Home  Economics, 


and  Housewifery  Building  $140,000 

Administration  and  Faculty  Expansion  En¬ 
dowment  50,000 

Equipment  10,000 

Debt  60,000 


Total  $260,000 


COKER  COLLEGE 

HARTSVILLE,  SOUTH  CAROLINA 
E.  W.  Sikes,  President 

Coker  College  furnishes  a  fine  opportunity  to 
the  Baptists  to  erect  a  high  grade  woman’s  col¬ 
lege  on  a  foundation  already  firmly  established. 
The  late  Major  James  L.  Coker  erected  modern 
buildings  and  created  a  sufficient  endowment  to 
guarantee  the  permanence  of  the  college.  He  left 
it  with  an  endowment.  Let  the  denomination  do 
as  much  as  Major  Coker  did  and  the  Baptists 
will  have  a  college  that  will  meet  all  the  require¬ 
ments  of  a  high  grade  college  for  many  years. 
Coker  is  a  growing  concern,  but  it  needs  a  larger 
faculty,  another  dormitory,  a  library,  infirmary, 
gymnasium,  music  building  and  modern  equip¬ 
ment. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 

Endowment  and  Department  of  Christianity  $200,000 

SOUTH  CAROLINA  ACADEMIES 

South  Carolina  has  five  academies,  which  are 
to  benefit  by  the  $75,000,000  Fund.  They  are 
Edisto  Academy,  Sievern;  North  Greenville  Acad¬ 
emy,  Tigerville;  Six  Mile  Academy,  Central; 
Spartan  Academy,  Wellford;  Long  Creek  Acad¬ 
emy,  Mountain  Rest. 


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Greenville  Woman’s  College,  Greenville.  S.  C. 


The  $175,000  to  be  raised  by  South  Carolina 
Baptists  for  these  academies  is  to  be  used  for  the 
erection  of  additional  buildings  which  are  urgent- 
ly  needed. 

In  addition  to  the  amount  raised  by  the  State 
specifically  for  these  schools,  the  Home  Mission 
Board  will  add  $152,000  for  the  four  last  named 
schools,  in  whose  support  it  is  united  with  South 
Carolina  Baptists. 

All  of  these  academies  have  pressing  need  for 
new  dormitories  and  administration  buildings. 
Several  of  them  have  turned  away  this  fall  enough 
students  to  fill  another  dormitory. 

UNION  UNIVERSITY 

JACKSON,  TENNESSEE 
H.  E.  Watters,  President 

Union  Elniversitv  is  in  its  seventy-fifth  year. 
It  has  always  maintained  high  standards.  It  has 
always  had  a  very  large  attendance  of  ministerial 
students,  and  has  specialized  in  their  training, 
with  the  result  that  a  surprising  number  of  the 
leading  pastors  of  the  South  are  from  this  institu¬ 
tion.  Tlnion  University  is  situated  in  the  midst 
of  the  greatest  field  of  higher  educational  destitu¬ 
tion  in  the  United  States.  In  a  radius  of  125 
miles  there  is  only  one  other  standard  college. 
Since  Union  University  is,  at  present,  the  onlv 
such  school  in  their  midst,  it  becomes  a  great 
Baptist  obligation  to  make  this  school  a  strong 
standard  college  and  relieve,  at  least  in  part, 
this  great  destitution,  which  is  far  greater  than 
that  of  any  Appalachian  Mountain  section,  as 
much  as  has  been  said  of  the  educational  destitu¬ 
tion  there. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Land  $  10,000 

Dining  Hall  20,000 

Girls’  Boarding  Club  30  000 

Gymnasium  10,000 


Library  and  Science  Hall 

40,000 

Current  Expenses 

50,000 

Scientific  and  Library  Equipment 

20.000 

Ministerial  Aid 

5,000 

Debts 

100,000 

Total 

$285,000 

TENNESSEE  COLLEGE 

MURFREESBORO,  TENNESSEE 

Geo.  J.  Burnett,  President 

Tennessee  College  believes: 

That  a  denominational  college  must  stand  pri¬ 
marily  for  high  scholarship  which  shall  fully 
meet  recognized  standards. 

That  a  Baptist  college,  like  a  Baptist  church, 
must  be  characterized  by  a  spirit  of  democracy. 

That  there  is  no  inconsistency  between  the 
truest  intellectual  training  and  whole-hearted 
Christianity,  and  that  in  a  Baptist  college  the 
Christian  life  should  be  fostered  and  the  students 
trained  for  leadership  in  every  phase  of  Christian 
work  and  church  activity. 

That  in  a  denominational  college  an  earnest 
student  of  small  means,  willing  to  help  herself, 
should  be  able  to  secure  an  education  of  this  type. 

For  twelve  years  Tennessee  College  has  been 
striving  to  make  these  beliefs  real  in  its  life  and 
the  lives  of  its  students. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Central  Heating  Plant  $  25,000 

Library  25,000 

Residence  Hall  for  Fifty  Students  40,000 

Infirmary  10  000 

Gymnasium  10,000 

Second  Residence  Hall  for  Fifty  Students  40,000 

Academic  and  Administration  Building  150,000 

Endowment  100,000 


Total  $400  000 


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CARSON  AND  NEWMAN  COLLEGE 

JEFFERSON  CITY,  TENNESSEE 
W.  L.  Gentry,  President 

Carson  and  Newman  College  is  situated  in  the 
center  of  the  mountain  section  of  our  Southern 
Baptist  territory.  Take  a  radius  of  one  hundred 
miles  and  draw  a  circle  and  Carson  and  Newman 
is  the  only  Baptist  College  doing  four  years  col¬ 
lege  work  within  this  circle.  In  this  territory, 
I  am  informed,  are  more  Baptists  than  in  any 
other  section  in  the  world  of  like  population. 
In  order  that  our  denomination  may  hold  and 
develop  this  people,  we  must  have  a  strong  col¬ 
lege,  well  equipped  for  service.  Carson  and  New¬ 
man  undoubtedly  is  the  logical  school  that  should 
receive  our  support  and  aid. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Enlargement  of  Davis  Hall 

$  30,000 

Dining  Hall  and  Kitchen 

15,000 

Library  and  Gymnasium 

50,000 

Small  Sanitarium 

5,000 

Payment  of  Debts 

70,000 

Expansion  of  Faculty 

18,000 

Library  Books  and  Equipment 

5,000 

Ministerial  Aid 

7,000 

Other  Improvements  and  Endowment 

210  000 

Total  1410,000 


BAYLOR  UNIVERSITY 

WACO,  TEXAS 
S.  P.  Brooks,  President 

Baylor  University  was  founded  by  the  Republic 
of  Texas  in  1845.  It,  perhaps,  enrolls  more  col¬ 
lege  students  than  any  Baptist  institution  in  the 
South.  Its  colleges  of  medicine,  dentistry  and 
pharmacy,  located  in  Dallas,  working  in  harmony 
with  the  Baptist  Memorial  Sanitarium,  make  a 
strong  appeal  to  all  the  Southern  Baptist  Conven¬ 
tion.  This  institution  is  grounded  deep  in  the 
hearts  of  its  friends.  Its  needs  are  as  great  as 
its  opportunities  are  many.  A  denominational 
investment  here  counts  powerfully  for  God 
through  service  to  the  world. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 

Buildings  $400,000 

Boys’  Dormitory,  Girls’  Dormitory, 
Enlargement  of  Steam  Plant 

Endowment  600,000 

Total  $1,000,000 


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BAYLOR  UNIVERSITY  SCHOOL  OF 
MEDICINE 

DALLAS,  TEXAS 

Edward  H.  Cary,  M.D.,  Dean 

We  now  have  four  missionary  students  and 
stand  ready  to  educate  any  and  all  who  may  apply 
on  that  basis.  Ours  is  the  only  Baptist  medical 
school  in  the  South  and  has  a  Class  A  rating.  The 
clinical  opportunities  in  Dallas  are  great,  and  the 
school  has  made  the  most  of  them,  slowly  but 
surely  building  up  clinics  which  are  not  only  a 
most  valuable  factor  in  training  our  students,  but 
a  wonderful  help  to  the  poor  of  our  city.  Our 
close  connection  with  the  great  Baptist  Sanitarium 
brings  unusual  opportunities  to  the  students  of 
our  college. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 

Endowment  $500,000 

SIMMONS  COLLEGE 

ABILENE,  TEXAS 
J.  D.  Sandefer,  President 

Simmons  College,  with  the  largest  enrollment 
in  her  history,  appeals  to  our  great  denomination 
throughout  the  Southland  to  rally  as  one  man  to 
the  supreme  task  before  us.  Our  opportunity  for 
service  is  commensurate  with  the  needs  of  a  lost 
world  to  be  won  and  saved.  Our  schools  must 
meet  the  challenge  prayerfully  and  sacrificially. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  .SPENT 


Administration  Building 

$150,000 

Boys’  Dormitory 

50,000 

Library 

75,000 

Fine  Arts 

25,000 

Administration — Faculty  Expansion 

100.000 

Additional  Equipment  and  Endowment 

100,000 

Total  $500,000 


BAYLOR  COLLEGE 

BELTON,  TEXAS 
J.  C.  Hardy,  President 

This  new  age  into  which  we  are  about  to  enter 
is  to  be  not  only  an  age  of  democracy  and  edu¬ 
cation,  but  it  is  to  be  pre-eminently  an  age  for 
woman.  Therefore,  if  there  ever  was  a  time  when 
a  young  woman  ought  to  have  an  education,  now 
is  the  time.  If  our  friends  of  Baylor  College  will 
rally  around  her  at  this  time  when  she  is  expend¬ 
ing  as  much  in  one  year  on  buildings  and  equip¬ 
ment  as  has  been  spent  during  the  past  seventy- 
five  years,  and  when  she  is  planning  to  invest 
nearly  a  million  dollars  within  the  next  five  years, 
the  future  of  the  college  will  loom  large. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Dormitories 

$300,000 

Education  Building 

100,000 

Science  Building 

100,000 

Power  and  Heat  Plant 

50,000 

Fine  Arts  Building 

100,000 

Library 

100,000 

Total  $750,000 


HOWARD-PAYNE  COLLEGE 

BROWNWOOD,  TEXAS 
L.  J.  Mims,  President 

All  space  in  dormitories,  Administration  Build¬ 
ing  and  business  department  building  is  taken. 
Many  are  rooming  and  boarding  out  in  town. 
Many  more  are  coming.  What  shall  we  do?  We 
are  in  great  need  of  an  Administration  Building 
for  our  academy  and  need  more  ground.  We 
have  a  situation  conducive  to  the  building  of  one 
of  the  greatest  institutions  of  the  country  at  the 
geographical  center  of  Texas. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 

Buildings  and  Improvements  $300,000 


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Tennessee  College,  Murfreesboro,  Todd. 


COLLEGE  OF  MARSHALL 

MARSHALL,  TEXAS 
John  S.  Humphreys,  President 

The  College  of  Marshall  serves  a  vast  section. 
Its  territory  is  larger  than  the  average  Southern 
State.  It  was  founded  by  late  William  Thomas 
Tardy,  and  launched  on  a  large  scale.  The  plant 
is  worth  $300,000,  embracing  a  magnificent  Ad¬ 
ministration  Building,  two  handsome  Dormitories 
and  a  Dining  Hall.  The  enrollment  for  the  first 
two  years  reached  eleven  hundred.  No  additional 
homes  are  available  on  account  of  the  high  cost 
of  living. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Boys’  Dormitory  $50,000 

Kitchen  and  Dining  Hall  25,000 

Enlargement  of  Heating  Plant  15,000 

Sidewalks  and  Beautifying  Property  10,000 


Total  $100,000 


DECATUR  BAPTIST  COLLEGE 

DECATUR,  TEXAS 
W.  M.  Hughes,  Dean 

Decatur  College  is  entering  upon  a  new  day. 
For  twenty-eight  years  it  has  been  the  standard- 
bearer  of  Christian  education  in  Middle  Western 
Texas.  Situated  as  it  is  on  the  divide  between 
the  Old  South  and  the  New  West,  its  place  in 
education  is  a  most  enviable  one.  In  its  class 
rooms  are  the  best  blood  among  the  youth  of 
Texas  and  Oklahoma,  and  the  Baptists  of  the  South 
would  indeed  be  making  a  mistake  if  they  should 
fail  to  provide  adequately  for  the  education  of 
these  young  people  who  in  the  near  future  are 
to  be  the  leaders  of  national  and  world  thought. 
The  need  is  too  great,  the  opportunity  is  too  evi¬ 
dent,  and  the  necessity  is  too  pressing  for  our 


Baptist  people  to  falter  a  moment  in  the  cam¬ 
paign  to  raise  seventy-five  millions  for  the  Master. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Land 

$20,000 

Administration  Building  (completion  of) 

40,000 

Girls’  Dormitory 

20,000 

Equipment,  Furniture 

20,000 

Total 

$100,000 

WAYLAND  COLLEGE 

PLAINVIEW,  TEXAS 

E.  B.  Atwood,  President 

Wayland  College  is  the  only  Baptist  school  in 
a  territory  approximately  three  hundred  miles 
square.  It  is  two  hundred  miles  west  of  any 
other  Southern  Baptist  educational  institution.  It 
should  become  the  rallying  ground  and  founda¬ 
tion  for  a  great  Baptist  empire.  It  is  the  hope  of 
thousands  of  boys  and  girls  on  the  western  plains 
for  a  Christian  education.  These  lads  with  Em¬ 
pire  in  their  brains  must  have  Christian  ideas 
implanted  in  their  hearts.  Wayland  College  will 
stabilize  the  transient  life  of  the  West,  will 
encourage  co-operation  among  our  widely  scat¬ 
tered  churches,  will  train  leaders  for  a  great 
western  civilization,  will  plant  Christian  ideals 
in  thousands  of  western  homes,  will  interpret  and 
propagate  Baptist  truths  and  hasten  the  coming 
of  the  Kingdom  of  God. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Heating  Plant  $25,000 

Completing  Administration  Building  25,000 

New  Dormitory  50,000 


Total  $100,000 


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Carson  and  Newman  College,  Jefferson  City,  Tcnn. 


RUSK  JUNIOR  COLLEGE 

RUSK,  TEXAS 
J.  M.  Cook,  President 

Rusk  Junior  College  is  a  Baptist  school  that 
stands  for  the  making  of  men  and  women  and 
not  money,  that  reaches  out  the  arms  of  help 
and  encouragement  to  the  thousands  of  worthy 
boys  and  girls  in  the  great,  undeveloped  south¬ 
eastern  portion  of  the  State.  Rusk  College  has 
a  distinctive  mission  in  the  educational  and  de¬ 
nominational  development  of  Southeast  Texas. 
To  meet  that  need  it  must  be  greatly  reinforced. 
The  sum  apportioned  will  greatly  help,  but  it  is 
too  small  to  meet  the  demands  upon  us.  We  need 
an  Administration  Building  that  would  cost  every 
cent  of  that  apportionment.  We  must  enlarge 
our  dormitories  and  spend  thousands  of  dollars 
in  better  equipment  for  teaching. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Additions  to  Girls’  Dormitory  $30,000 

Additions  to  Boys’  Dormitory  30  000 

Administration  Building  Improvement  15,000 

Equipment,  Laboratory,  Library  10  000 

Improvement  Girls’  Self-Help  Club  5,000 

Ministerial  Aid  5,000 

Equipment,  Improving  240-acre  College  Farm  5,000 

Total  $100  000 


SAN  MARCOS  ACADEMY 

SAN  MARCOS,  TEXAS 

J.  V.  Brown,  President 

San  Marcos  Academy  is  in  the  most  strategic 
position  in  the  South — in  the  center  of  the  great 
Catholic  Southwest.  We,  therefore,  are  sending 
out  the  Macedonian  cry  of  “Come  over  and  help 
us.”  Give  us  buildings  and  we  will  equip  them, 
furnish  them,  keep  out  of  debt,  fit  out  laborato¬ 
ries  and  libraries.  Just  give  us  places  to  shelter 
our  boys,  girls  and  children,  and  we  will  labor 
with  all  our  might  and  main  to  train,  direct,  nur¬ 


ture  and  discipline  them  for  service  in  the  King¬ 
dom  of  God.  We  have  the  field  and  we  have  the 
students.  Our  aim  is  to  light  the  evangelical 
torch  here  at  San  Marcos  Baptist  Academy,  so 
that  all  Catholic  Southwest  Texas  can  see  it  and 
be  reclaimed  to  our  Lord  and  Master. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 

Administration  Building  $100,000 

RICHMOND  COLLEGE 

RICHMOND,  VIRGINIA 
F.  W.  Boatwricht,  President 

The  corporate  name,  “Richmond  College,”  in¬ 
cludes  two  co-ordinate  standard  colleges.  Rich¬ 
mond  College  for  men  and  Westhampton  College 
for  women.  The  two  colleges  are  located  on 
opposite  sides  of  Westhampton  Lake  in  a  beauti¬ 
ful  park  of  two  hundred  and  ninety-one  acres. 
The  enrollment  last  session  was  635. 

Richmond  College,  founded  by  Virginia  Bap¬ 
tists  in  1332,  now  owns  grounds,  buildings  and 
equipment  valued  conservatively  at  $1,500,000. 
The  income-bearing  endowment  amounts  to  more 
than  one  million  dollars.  A  campaign  for  one 
million  dollars,  of  which  seven-tenths  is  for  en¬ 
dowment  and  the  remainder  for  buildings,  has 
just  been  brought  to  a  successful  conclusion  and 
the  money  will  be  collected  through  the  next  four 
years. 

This  campaign  did  not,  however,  include  money 
for  a  needed  laboratory  building  nor  for  suffi¬ 
cient  buildings  for  the  college  for  women.  The 
money  designated  for  the  two  colleges  from  the 
75  Million  Campaign  is  urgently  needed  for  these 
new  buildings  and  for  further  endowment. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Building  Scientific  Laboratories 

$100,000 

Scientific  and  Other  Equipment 

50,000 

Dormitory  for  Women 

100,000 

Additional  Buildings 

180,000 

Endowment 

420,000 

Total 

$850,000 

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VIRGINIA  INTERMONT  COLLEGE 


AVERETT  COLLEGE 


BRISTOL,  VIRGINIA 
H.  F.  Noffsincer,  President 


DANVILLE,  VIRGINIA 
C.  E.  Crosland,  President 


Virginia  Intermont  College,  Bristol,  Virginia, 
is  a  leading  Southern  junior  college.  It  stands 
for  the  development  of  Christian  character  and 
sound  scholarship.  A  definite  aim  is  to  lead 
every  girl  to  Christ  and  fit  her  for  a  life  of  serv¬ 
ice  for  the  Master.  Its  plant  is  worth  $160,000, 
with  no  debt.  Equipment,  enlargement  and  en¬ 
dowment  are  absolutely  necessary  to  further  prog¬ 
ress.  One  hundred  and  twenty-five  students  were 
turned  away  last  year  for  lack  of  room.  There 
is  imperative  need  of  three  times  the  one  hundred 
and  twenty-five  thousand  dollars  the  school  is  to 
get.  Southern  Baptists,  hear  the  urgent  call  of 
your  Christian  Schools! 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 

To  Improve  and  Equip  the  Present  Plant  $25,000 
Dormitory  75.000 

Endowment  25,000 


Averett  College  appeals  to  the  brotherhood  for 
many  reasons.  It  has  sixty  years  of  noble  history 
in  creating  Baptist  homes  in  this  and  other  states. 
It  has  been  in  the  forefront  of  Baptist  develop¬ 
ment  in  Southside  Virginia.  It  usually  closes  the 
session  with  all  students  Christians.  It  maintains 
a  live  Y.  W.  A.  and  also  teaches  the  Bible,  Mis¬ 
sions  and  Sunday  school  work  with  full  credit. 
Its  buildings  are  filled  this  year.  More  room  and 
equipment  are  needed.  Endowment  is  imperative 
to  maintain  our  high  junior  college  status. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Debt 

$25,500 

Improvement  of  Grounds 

5.000 

Library 

2.500 

Laboratories 

5  000 

Scholarships 

5.000 

Furnishings 

2.000 

Endowment 

80,000 

Total 


$125,000  Total 


$125,000 


Baylor  Female  College,  Belton,  Texas 

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Main  Building,  Richmond  College,  Va. 


CHATHAM  TRAINING  SCHOOL 

CHATHAM,  VIRGINIA 
A.  H.  Camden,  President 


FORK  UNION  MILITARY  ACADEMY 

FORK  UNION,  VIRGINIA 
Col.  N.  J.  Perkins,  President 


The  Chatham  Training  School  during  its  his¬ 
tory  of  ten  years  has  emerged  from  a  rented  build¬ 
ing  to  property  worth  $60,000,  from  a  scant  dozen 
in  attendance  to  an  enrollment  of  110,  from  a 
school  without  credit  to  one  accredited  by  any 
college  or  university.  During  its  ten  years’  his¬ 
tory,  it  has  aided  forty-nine  ministerial  students. 
Scores  of  other  pupils  have  taken  their  places  in 
the  world  as  Christian  laymen.  We  feel  that  the 
Chatham  Training  School  has  already  proven  to 
the  Virginia  Baptists  that  it  deserves  their  sup¬ 
port,  patronage  and  prayers.  We  need  every 
dollar  for  which  we  have  asked,  and  double  that 
amount. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Residence  for  President 

$  7.000 

Dormitory 

25,000 

Gymnasium  and  Armory 

50.000 

Equipment 

4.000 

Athletic  Field  and  Addition  to  Campus 

8.000 

Indebtedness 

31,000 

Total 

$125,000 

Fork  Union  Military  Academy  is  a  preparatory 
school,  owned  and  controlled  by  the  Virginia  Bap¬ 
tists,  fitting  young  men  and  boys  for  college  and 
business  education.  We  admit  boys  to  school 
when  they  are  fourteen  years  of  age,  so  that  they 
are  under  our  care  during  the  formative  period 
of  their  lives,  when  they  are  most  easily  influenced 
for  the  right.  It  is  the  aim  of  our  school  at  this 
critical  period  of  the  boy’s  life  to  surround  him 
with  such  influences  that  he  will  be  led  to  be¬ 
come  a  follower  of  our  Lord.  Fork  Union  Mili¬ 
tary  Academy  is  a  country  school.  We  are  located 
in  one  of  the  most  healthful  regions  of  Virginia, 
away  from  the  demoralizing  and  distracting  in¬ 
fluences  of  the  town  and  city.  It  is  our  purpose 
to  build  up  here  at  Fork  Union  a  school  for  boys 
of  which  the  Baptists  of  the  South  will  be  justly 
proud.  The  Bible  is  taught  in  our  curriculum. 


HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 

For  Debts  $30,000 

For  Building  Remaining  Half  of  Hatcher 
Hall  30,000 

For  Building  Snead  Hall,  with  Gymnasium  40,000 

For  Campus  Improvements  and  Athletic 
Field  10,000 

For  Laboratories,  Library  and  Furniture  10,000 

For  Renovating  Armory  5,000 


Total 


$125,000 


Westhampton  College,  Richmond  College,  Va. 

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HOME  MISSION  BOARD 


SUMMARY  OF  NEEDS 


Co-operative  Missions 

$  1,244,181 

Evangelism 

1,670,000 

Enlistment 

1,000,000 

Church  Building  Gifts 

2,688,000 

Loan  Fund 

1,625,000 

Population  Centers 

500,000 

Mountain  Schools  and  Other  School  Work 

1,288,900 

Foreigners,  Negroes,  and  Indians 

1,479,495 

Cuba 

797,042 

Panama 

76,500 

Work  Among  Soldiers,  Marines,  and  Sailors 

200,000 

Sanatorium 

1,000,000 

Publicity 

175,000 

Operating  Expenses 

450,000 

Original  Total 


These  figure*  must  be  reduced  so  as  to  come  within  the  $12,000,000  apportionment*, 
apportionment,  but  as  an  approximation  of  our  needs  for  the  next  five  years. 

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$14,194,118 


They  are  not,  therefore,  to  be  oonsidered  as  an 


HOME  MISSIONS  AND  THE  75  MILLION  CAMPAIGN 


N  THE  annual  report  of  the  Home 
Mission  Board,  presented  to  the 
Southern  Baptist  Convention  in  its 
session  in  Atlanta,  May  14,  1919,  it 
presented  a  proposed  Home  Mission  program  for 
the  five-year  period  just  ahead  of  us. 

The  Southern  Baptist  Convention  projected  the 
75  Million  Campaign  for  Southern  Baptists  for 
five  years.  $12,000,000  of  the  $75,000,000  was 
apportioned  by  the  Executive  Committee  of  the 
Southern  Baptist  Convention  to  Home  Missions. 
This  was  something  like  $1,000,000  less  than  our 
provisional  five-year  program. 

The  75  Million  Campaign  presents  an  oppor¬ 
tunity  for  Southern  Baptists  to  show  how  they 
can  co-operate  in  a  campaign  and  program  which 
takes  in  all  their  combined  activities.  With  char¬ 
ity  for  all  others,  malice  toward  none,  we  are  to 
throw  the  full  force  of  our  strength  into  a  pro¬ 
gram  somewhat  worthy  of  our  great  numbers, 
our  commanding  influence  and  the  tremendous 
tasks*  that  confront  us.  The  whole  brotherhood 
can  champion  this  program  that  stands  for  our 
ideals,  the  integrity  of  our  faith,  and  our  ambi¬ 
tion  for  the  conquest  of  the  world  to  the  truth  as 
it  is  in  Jesus  Christ. 

Our  country  must  be  the  base  of  supplies  for 
Christian  conquest  throughout  the  world.  To  that 
end  its  own  spiritual  resources  are  to  be  elicited 
and  marshalled.  Europe,  drained  by  war  and 
well-nigh  bankrupt,  is  looking  to  the  United  States 
for  financial  and  commercial  assistance.  She  is 
equally  in  need  of  our  spiritual  wealth  and  its 
support. 

There  are  10,000,000  Negroes  in  the  South 
claiming  our  attention.  They  are  of  more  vital 
concern  to  us  than  any  other  hundred  millions  of 
people  in  the  world.  Socially,  politically,  eco¬ 
nomically  and  religiously,  they  constitute  our 
gravest  task,  and  we  neglect  them  at  our  own 
peril  as  well  as  their  infinite  loss. 

Along  with  our  task  in  uplifting  the  Negro  race 
is  the  work  among  the  foreigners.  Unless  the 
foreigner  is  really  Americanized  he  is  a  menace 


to  our  civilization.  He  cannot  really  be  Ameri¬ 
canized  without  being  Christianized.  We  have  the 
best  opportunity  with  these  foreigners  to  do  the 
most  effective  and  economical  work  for  people  of 
the  immigrant  nations.  They  are  at  our  doors,  in 
our  fields,  mines  and  factories,  a  part  of  our 
civilization. 

Four  million  American  soldiers,  mobilized  for 
war  in  less  than  two  years’  time,  have  been  de¬ 
mobilized  and  are  now  back  in  civil  life.  We 
must  give  as  earnest  heed  to  them  religiously  as 
we  did  to  train  and  equip  them  for  winning  the 
world  war. 

Perhaps  the  two  greatest  tasks  before  Southern 
Baptists  are  evangelism  and  enlistment.  The  75 
Million  Campaign  will  mean  much  in  the  winning 
of  the  lost  and  the  training  of  the  saved  through 
the  working  forces  of  the  Home  Mission  Board  in 
the  field  of  Evangelism  and  Enlistment. 

Cuba,  with  her  millions,  who  for  centuries 
groped  in  darkness  of  superstition  and  Romanism, 
has  been  brought  into  the  full  light  of  political 
freedom.  Whilst  she  has  thrown  off  in  a  large 
measure  her  superstition,  she  must  have  the  sim¬ 
ple  power  of  the  gospel,  else  she  will  be  swamped 
with  skepticism,  worldliness  and  commercialism. 

The  Campaign  will  bring  Home  Missions  the 
facilities  for  greater  publicity.  The  day  has  come 
when  Baptists  must  give  more  serious  attention 
than  ever  before  to  the  propagation  of  the  truth 
as  they  see  it.  A  wise,  aggressive  and  virile 
propaganda  is  necessary.  Baptists  hold  to  the 
truth,  and  the  truth  ought  to  be  given  the  widest 
publicity.  In  the  secular  papers,  as  well  as  in 
our  religious  papers,  we  must  make  our  work 
known. 

There  never  was  a  time  when  a  great  program 
for  Home  Missions  would  count  for  so  much  as 
now.  God  awaken  us!  God  open  our  hearts! 
Graciously  enable  us  to  see  and  be  consumed  by 
a  passion  to  possess  and  to  spread  to  the  remotest 
nook  and  the  most  neglected  corner  of  our  South¬ 
land  that  righteousness  which  exalteth  a  nation. 


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Mars  Hill  College,  Mars  Hill,  N.  C, 

CO-OPERATIVE  MISSIONS 


HE  Department  of  Co-operative  Mis¬ 
sions  in  the  scheme  of  our  Home 
Mission  work  constitutes  the  great 
unifying  feature  of  Home  Mission  ac¬ 
tivity,  contributing  as  it  does  so  vital¬ 
ly  to  the  solidarity  of  the  denomination  and  the 
co-operation  of  our  forces  and  our  ability  to  con¬ 
centrate  our  energies  on  strategic  points  and  to 
open  up  new  fields  too  large  and  needy  for  the 
local  forces  to  handle  alone. 

Never  were  there  such  compelling  opportunities 
in  this  department  of  our  work.  The  South  is  on 
the  eve  of  the  greatest  development  ever  known 
to  our  section  of  the  common  country.  Great 
rural  fields  are  calling  for  help,  and  in  scores  and 
hundreds  of  towns  and  cities  we  shall  lose  what 


we  have,  if  we  do  not  greatly  multiply  our  forces 
and  increase  their  efficiency.  Vast  factories,  ship¬ 
building  centers  and  lumber  camps  and  other  in¬ 
dustrial  developments  constitute  a  call  so  large 
that  we  must  heed  it  with  promptness,  vigor  and 
liberality. 

For  the  present  year  we  have  made  an  increase 
in  our  appropriations  for  co-operative  missions  of 
30  per  cent  over  the  appropriations  to  that  de¬ 
partment  for  last  year.  We  make  the  modest 
estimate  of  20  per  cent  increase  for  the  last  four 
years  of  the  five-year  period  over  our  apportion¬ 
ment  of  the  present  year,  which  would  make  for 

CO-OPERATIVE  MISSIONS  FOR  FIVE 

YEARS  $1,244,181 


EVANGELISM 


N  1906  the  Southern  Baptist  Conven¬ 
tion  committed  itself  to  a  policv  of 
denominational  evangelism.  It  gave 
to  the  Home  Mission  Board  the  task 
of  working  out  a  program  and  build¬ 
ing  up  and  administering  a  department  for  the 
carrying  out  of  this  purpose.  Already  the  Evan¬ 
gelistic  Department  of  the  Home  Mission  Board 
is  far  and  away  the  largest  denominational  soul¬ 
winning  agency  in  America.  There  appears  to  be 
nothing  else  just  like  it  in  all  the  world. 

This  survey  provides  in  a  unique  wav  for  the 
increased  working  staff  for  which  it  calls.  The 
great  group  of  volunteers  for  the  ministry  which 
it  will  call  out  will  put  into  our  colleges  and  into 
religious  work  fifty  to  a  hundred  times  as  many 
as  will  be  necessary  to  man  the  Home  Board  s 
evangelistic  staff.  In  fact,  we  know  of  no  other 
agency  of  the  denomination  which  promises  to  do 


so  much  as  this  department  in  the  needy  field  of 
fructifying  and  reinforcing  the  neglected  and 
alarmingly  depleted  ministerial  supplv. 


EVANGELISTS  FOR  FIVE  YEARS 

1920 —  50  Evangelists  (salary-expense)  $  150  000 

1921 —  70  Evangelists  (salary-expense)  210  000 

1922 —  80  Evangelists  (salary-expense)  240  000 

1923 —  90  Evangelists  (salary-expense)  270  000 

1924 —  100  Evangelists  (salary-expense)  300  000 


Total  $1,170,000 

SINGERS  FOR  FIVE  YEARS 

1920  —  20  Singers  (salary-expense)  $  50.000 

1921  —  30  Singers  (salary-expense)  75,000 

1922  —  40  Singers  (salary-expense)  100.000 

1923  —  50  Singers  (salary-expense)  125.000 

1924  —  60  Singers  (salary-expense)  150,000 


Total  $500  000 

TOTAL  COST  OF  EVANGELISM  FOR 

FIVE  YEARS  $1,670,000 


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Administration  Building,  Southern  Baptist  Sanitorium,  El  Paso,  Texas 


ENLISTMENT 


N  1913  Southern  Baptists  had  23,569 
churches.  Of  this  number  more  than 
50  per  cent  were  nonparticipant  in 
the  co-operative  mission  work  of  the 
denomination. 

The  Home  Mission  Board  started  its  enlistment 
work  in  1913.  The  effort  of  its  workers  was  not 
primarily  to  urge  giving  to  missions.  Theirs  was 
the  more  difficult  task  of  providing  that  these 
churches  should  have  the  advantage  of  more 
preaching  and  pastoral  instruction.  Progress  has 
been  made.  As  a  denomination  we  continue  to  be 
conspicuously  successful  in  evangelization,  while 
we  are  distressingly  backward  in  many  of  our 
churches  in  providing  a  teaching  service  adequate 
to  the  development  of  the  church  members. 

We  have  still  about  11,000  Southern  Baptist 
churches  that  are  doing  nothing  for  missions  or 
other  co-operative  work.  Three  or  four  thousand 
preachers  give  more  or  less  of  their  time  to  these 
churches.  It  is  not  an  easy  task  to  bring  these 
churches  and  preachers  into  a  sympathetic  and 
alert  co-operation  with  the  best  our  denomination 


is  doing.  But  the  “enlistment”  task  is  much  more 
than  helping  these  churches  and  preachers. 

This  work  is  simple  enough,  but  it  is  not  easy. 
It  is  commonplace,  but  it  is  great.  It  is  a  large 
task,  but  perhaps  not  so  large  as  the  prior  task 
on  which  it  depends  for  success — that  of  arousing 
our  denomination  to  see  the  vast  need  and  pos¬ 
sibilities  in  this  field. 

With  more  than  40  per  cent  of  the  religious 
membership  in  the  South,  Baptists  are  in  wealth 
and  culture,  as  they  are  in  their  New  Testament 
principles,  abundantly  able  and  fitted  to  nurture 
into  vitality  and  a  large  fellowship  in  Christ  every 
remote  Baptist  church  in  every  corner  of  the 
land.  We  must  do  it  if  we  are  to  be  half  as 
big  as  our  principles  require  that  we  shall  be. 

For  this  work  we  need  fourteen  general  men 
with  four  assistants  in  each  of  fourteen  States. 
In  two  States  we  need  two  good  men  each.  It 
will  require  $200,000  to  meet  the  expenses  of  this 
program,  which  will  mean  $1,000,000  for  five 
years. 

ENLISTMENT  FOE  FIVE  YEARS  11,000,000 


CHURCH  BUILDING  GIFTS 


HE  Million-Dollar  Building  Loan 
Fund  has  taken  off  some  of  the  cru¬ 
cial  pressure  for  aid  in  church  build¬ 
ing.  But  so  great  was  the  need  and 
so  long  had  it  accumulated,  that  even 
this  splendid  fund  is  able  to  take  care  of  only  a 
small  per  cent  of  the  most  pressing  needs. 

There  are  now  about  3,500  houseless  Baptist 
churches  in  the  Southern  Baptist  Convention. 

This  survey  is  not  based  upon  generalization, 
but  upon  painstaking  work,  in  which  we  have  had 
the  careful  aid  of  State  Mission  Secretaries.  The 
figures  we  shall  presently  give  are  the  sum  of  re¬ 
quests  from  the  following  eleven  States:  Ala¬ 


bama,  Arkansas,  Florida,  Illinois,  Louisiana, 
Maryland,  North  Carolina,  Oklahoma,  South 
Carolina,  Tennessee,  and  Texas. 

In  fifty-two  college  towns  $1,815,000  could  be 
wisely  expended  on  building  Baptist  houses  of 
worship  during  the  next  five  years.  Of  this 
amount  the  Home  Board  should  contribute  $525,- 
000.  This  might  be  expected  to  elicit  $1,290,000 
from  local  sources. 

In  400  other  towns  and  cities  in  the  eleven 
States,  by  giving  $1,223,000  to  church  buildings, 
we  could  elicit  $3,676,000  from  local  sources, 
making  a  total  of  $4,899,000. 

In  these  eleven  States,  by  putting  $1,010,000 


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Library.  Mars  Hill  College,  Mars  Hill.  N.  C. 


into  building  adequate  houses  for  rural  churches, 
we  could  elicit  $2,920,000,  making  a  total  of  $3,- 
820,000  invested  in  power  houses  for  Christ. 

Bv  totaling  these  several  amounts,  it  will  ap¬ 
pear  that  the  expenditures  of  $2,758,000  by  the 
Home  Mission  Board  in  providing  houses  of  wor¬ 
ship,  would  result  in  directing  a  total  of  $10,- 
520,000  into  church  plants — which  amount  would 
become  a  productive  asset  of  our  denomination. 
The  proof  of  this  may  be  found  in  the  record  of 
churches  throughout  the  South,  which  the  Home 
Board  has  aided  in  building. 

Vi  e  have  been  so  rushed  for  time  that  we  have 
been  unable  to  get  a  definite  survey  of  building 
gift  needs  from  six  other  States.  But  the  six  in¬ 
clude  Kentucky  and  New  Mexico,  in  each  of 
which  the  large  church  building  needs  are  a  mat¬ 
ter  of  common  knowledge.  If  these  States  aver¬ 
aged  as  the  others,  they  would  need  a  total  of 
$1,500,000  from  the  Home  Mission  Board  for  this 
work.  But  in  order  to  place  the  total  so  low  that 
there  can  be  no  suspicion  of  an  overestimate,  we 
are  including  the  six  other  States  at  one-half 


the  amount  the  figures  would  suggest  as  fair.  We 
are  putting  down  for  them  a  total  of  $750,000. 
This  brings  the  total  for  church  building  gifts 
for  five  years  to  $3,508,000. 

Our  survey  has  also  revealed  the  necessity  in 
a  number  of  States  of  the  Home  Mission  Board 
putting  trained  ministers  at  manv  State  educa¬ 
tional  institutions  and  at  some  denominational 
schools,  that  Baptists  may  safeguard  and  nurture 
the  spiritual  welfare  of  the  thousands  of  our 
young  people  in  attendance  at  these  institutions. 

We  are  putting  this  need  here  with  Church 
Building  because  it  is  so  intimately  associated 
with  it  in  college  towns.  From  Texas,  Alabama, 
Arkansas,  Louisiana,  Oklahoma  there  came  de¬ 
mands  for  Baptist  pastors  for  students  in  colleges 
that  total  $36,000  yearly,  or  $180,000  for  five 
years.  This  is  a  service  which  is  sure  to  grow  in 
favor  with  our  people.  It  promises  to  be  the 
way  out  of  our  trouble  to  properly  safeguard  our 
young  people  in  many  colleges 

CHURCH  BUILDING  GIFTS  FOR  FIVE 

YEARS  $2,688,000 


CHURCH  BUILDING  LOAN  FUND 


Through  several  years  the  Board  has  been  gath¬ 
ering  a  Million  Dollar  Church  Building  Loan 
Fund.  This  amount  has  been  raised  in  cash  and 
pledges.  To  the  $625,000  of  unpaid  pledges, 
another  million  dollars  should  be  added  in  the 
next  five  years,  as  a  One  Million  Dollar  Church 
Building  Loan  Fund  is  absolutely  inadequate. 
The  four  thousand  homeless  congregations  in  the 


South  must  have  help.  These  churches  must  be 
cared  for,  if  the  home  base  is  to  be  made  strong. 
No  investment  the  denomination  can  make  will 
yield  larger  returns  than  this  Church  Building 
Loan  Fund. 

CHURCH  BUILDING  LOAN  FUND  FOR 

FIVE  YEARS  $1,625,000 


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Home  Board  Evangelist  Preaching  on  Street 

POPULATION  CENTERS 


HE  South  has  long  been  and  it  will 
remain  a  great  agricultural  section. 
It  is  now  also  becoming  a  great  cen¬ 
ter  for  manufacturing  and  industrial 
plants. 

This  new  development  is,  for  many  of  our  peo¬ 
ple,  destroying  the  isolation  under  which  they 
have  lived,  it  is  bringing  them  together  in  great 
throngs  into  cities  and  new  population  centers. 

In  Georgia  there  are  thirty-three  cities  of  from 
5,000  to  250,000,  which  aggregate  700.000  popu¬ 
lation.  This  is  approximately  25  per  cent  of 
Georgia’s  entire  population.  A  large  part  of  this 
increase  has  taken  place  since  the  census  of  1910. 

The  recent  growth  in  Norfolk  and  the  other 
cities  around  Hampton  Roads  is  doubling  the 
population  of  those  erstwhile  conservative  cities. 
In  the  great  new  oil  fields  in  Texas  large  towns 
are  growing  up  almost  in  a  day.  One  was  re¬ 
ported  to  have  grown  to  10,000  before  anybody 
had  time  or  breath  enough  to  give  it  a  name. 
The  hydro-electric  development  on  the  Tennessee 
River  in  Northern  Alabama  has  in  a  year  brought 
40,000  people  together  where  before  were  only 
forests  and  the  murmur  of  the  river’s  unhindered 
flow. 

The  massing  of  our  people  in  cotton  mill  cen¬ 
ters  has  been  rapidly  increasing  for  many  years. 
More  recently  such  new  industries  as  shipbuild¬ 
ing  and  hydro-electric  power  and  manufacturing 
plants,  together  with  lumbering  operations,  are 


increasing  manifold  the  number  of  population 
aggregations. 

The  Home  Mission  Board  has  long  dealt 
with  the  city  problem,  especially  in  such  centers 
as  Baltimore  and  New  Orleans.  Usually  its  main 
urban  efforts  have  looked  to  evangelizing  the  for¬ 
eign  population.  In  New  Orleans,  however,  our 
work  has  taken  on  a  broader  scope.  Here  we 
are  working,  as  there  is  need  for  doing  in  many 
other  cities,  to  reach  and  save  the  large  groups 
of  our  own  American  people  who  have  in  the 
city  mass  lost  their  bearings  and  religious  af¬ 
filiations. 

There  are  thousands  of  such  people  in  every 
large  city  in  the  South,  and  the  problem  of  reach- 
ing  them  for  Christ  and  conserving  them  for 
Christ  is  a  problem  for  which  our  whole  Baptist 
body  has  a  responsibility.  It  is  gratifying  that 
local  and  State  agencies  are  in  some  cases  grap¬ 
pling  with  this  situation.  But  it  is  conceded  and 
is  becoming  ever  more  apparent  that  the  whole 
denomination  must  help  here. 

To  do  this  work  the  Home  Board  needs  and 
can  wisely  use  not  less  than  $100,000  a  year, 
making  for  the  next  five  years  $500,000.  This 
would  not  be  adequate  but  for  additional  funds 
that  such  a  program  would  call  forth  from  local 
communities. 

WORK  TN  POPULATION  CENTERS  FOR 

FIVE  YEARS  $500,000 


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Doyle  Institute,  Doyle,  Tenn. 

MOUNTAIN  SCHOOLS 


N  no  department  of  our  work  have  re¬ 
sults  been  more  gratifying  in  the  past 
than  in  our  mountain  schools,  and 
this,  too,  in  spite  of  the  fact  that  the 
equipment  has  been  pitifully  inade¬ 
quate.  The  fact  that  the  mountain  boys  and  girls 
have  attended  these  schools  in  such  large  numbers, 
and  endured  privations  and  hardships  consequent 
upon  our  inadequate  equipment,  attests  their  hun¬ 
ger  for  education.  This  meager  and  inadequate 
equipment  has  worked  a  greater  hardship  upon 
our  teachers,  who  have  been  accustomed  to  bet¬ 
ter  things,  than  upon  the  students.  This  body  of 
noble  teachers,  however,  have  endured  the  hard¬ 
ships  looking  forward  to  the  time  when  the  de¬ 
nomination  would  be  able  to  give  them  a  better 
equipment.  If  these  schools  have  rendered  such 
invaluable  service  with  their  poor,  meager  equip¬ 
ment,  what  will  they  not  do  if  we  will  give  them 
something  like  adequate  equipment! 

Therefore,  we  hail  the  launching  of  the  75 
Million  Campaign  with  a  great  sense  of  relief, 
since  it  means  that  we  are  to  secure,  in  some 
measure  at  least,  the  equipment,  the  need  of 
which  has  been  accumulating  for  many  years. 
In  presenting  the  following  estimates,  we  have  in 
no  instance  been  extravagant. 

FIVE-YEAR  BUDGET  FOR  MOUNTAIN 

SCHOOLS 

LEE  INSTITUTE,  PENNINGTON  GAP,  VA. 

Enlargement  of  Boys’  Ruilding  $  8,000 

Improvement  on  Administration  Building, 

Including  Heating  Plant  2.500 

For  Endowment  25.000 

Maintenance  for  Five  Years  6,000 


OAK  HILL  ACADEMY,  KINDRICK,  VA. 

Additional  Lands  for  Fanning  $  1,000 

Enlargement  of  Boys’  Building  5,000 

Maintenance  for  Five  Years  5,000 

BARBOURVILLE  INSTITUTE,  BARBOURVILLE,  KY. 
Additional  Grounds  $15,000 

Finishing  Third  Story  of  Boys’  Building  2,000 

For  Endowment  25,000 

Maintenance  for  Five  Years  6,000 

HAZARD  INSTITUTE,  HAZARD,  KY. 

For  Girls'  Dormitory  $12,000 

Enlargement  of  Boys’  Dormitory  4.000 

Industrial  Department  5.000 

Central  Heating  Plant  5,000 

Endowment  25,000 

Maintenance  for  Five  Years  6,000 

MAGOFFIN  INSTITUTE,  SALYERSVILLE,  KY. 

New  Administration  Building  $15,000 

Dormitory  for  Roys  8.000 

Dormitory  for  Girls  8.000 

Additional  Grounds  2.000 

Maintenance  for  Five  Years  6,000 

COSBY  ACADEMY,  COSBY,  TENN. 

To  Provide  Water,  Sewerage  and  Lights  $  5,000 

Maintenance  for  Five  Years  5,000 

CHILHOWEE  INSTITUTE,  SEYMOUR,  TENN. 

Enlargement  of  Girls’  Dormitory  $  8,000 

Finishing  the  Administration  Building,  In¬ 
cluding  the  Heating  Plant  2,500 

Additional  Grounds  1,200 

Endowment  25,000 

Maintenance  for  Five  Years  5,000 

DOYLE  INSTITUTE,  DOYLE,  TENN. 

Dormitory  for  Girls  $  6.000 

Dormitory  for  Boys  5,000 

Repairs  on  Administration  and  Heating  Plant  4.000 
Maintenance  for  Five  Years  5,000 


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Administration  Building,  Mountain  View  Institute,  Hoys,  N.  C. 


STOCTONS  VALLEY  ACADEMY,  HELENA,  TENN. 


Boys’  Dormitory  $  3,000 

Industrial  Building  2.000 

Maintenance  for  Five  Years  5,000 

WATAUGA  ACADEMY,  BUTLER,  TENN. 

Additional  Grounds  $  3,000 

Boys’  Dormitory  10,000 

Enlargement  of  Administration  Building  4,000 

Endowment  25,000 

Maintenance  for  Five  Years  7,000 

SMOKY  MT.  ACADEMY.  SEVIERVILLE,  TENN. 

Home  for  Teachers  $  2.000 

Water  and  Lights  1.000 

Maintenance  for  Five  Years  4,000 

FRUITLAND  INSTITUTE,  HENDERSONVILLE,  N.  C. 
Enlargement  for  Boys’  Dormitory  $10,000 

Enlargement  for  Girls’  Dormitory  8  000 

Manual  Training  Building  and  Equipment, 
in  Which  Are  Provided  Society  Halls  for 
Girls  6.000 

Heating  Plant  2,500 

Endowment  25,000 

Maintenance  for  Five  Years  6.000 

HAYWOOD  INSTITUTE,  CLYDE,  N.  C. 

Water  and  Sewerage  $  2,000 

Repairs  on  Administration  Building  500 

Maintenance  for  Five  Years  5.000 

MARS  HILL  COLLEGE,  MARS  HILL.  N.  C. 

Lands  for  Gardening  and  Pasture  $  5.000 

New  Building  to  Provide  Additional  Recita¬ 
tion  Rooms,  Society  Halls,  etc.  25,000 

Central  Heating  Plant  7,500 

For  Repairs  4,000 

Endowment  25,000 

Maintenance  for  Five  Years  2,000 

MITCHELL  INSTITUTE,  BAKERSVILLE,  N.  C. 

Water  and  Sewerage  $  1,000 

Repairs  and  Improvements  on  Boarding  Halls  1.500 
Maintenance  for  Five  Years  5,000 


MOUNTAIN  VIEW  INSTITUTE,  HAYS,  N.  C. 

Water,  Sewerage  and  Lights  $  4,000 

Endowment  25,000 

Maintenance  for  Five  Years  5.000 

ROUND  HILL  ACADEMY,  UNION  MILLS,  N.  C. 

To  Rebuild  Girls’  Dormitory  (Destroyed  by 

Fire)  '  $10,000 

Maintenance  for  Five  Years  5,000 

SYLVA  COLLEGIATE  INSTITUTE,  SYL\  A.  N.  C. 

Addition  to  Administration  Building  $15,000 

Enlargement  of  Girls’  Dormitory  6,000 

Enlargement  of  Boys’  Dormitory  12,000 

Additional  Grounds  8,000 

Endowment  25,000 

Maintenance  for  Five  Years  7,500 


YANCEY  COLLEGIATE  INSTITUTE,  BURNSVILLE. 
N.  C. 

New  Administration  Building  (to  replace 


one  destroyed  by  fire)  $50,000 

Water,  Lights  and  Sewerage  2,000 

Endowment  25.000 

Maintenance  for  Five  Years  7.500 

NORTH  GREENVILLE  ACADEMY,  TIGERVILLE.  S.  C. 

Boys’  Dormitory  $12,000 

Water,  Sewerage,  Lights  and  Heating  Plant  6.000 
Endowment  25  000 

Maintenance  for  Five  Years  5.000 

SIX  MILE  ACADEMY,  CENTRAL.  S.  C. 

Additional  Grounds  $  2,500 

Enlargement  of  Girls’  Dormitory  6,000 

Enlargement  of  Boys’  Dormitory  5,000 

Water,  Sewerage  and  Lights  2,000 

Maintenance  for  Five  Years  5.000 

SPARTAN  ACADEMY,  WELLFORD,  S.  C. 

Administration  Building  $40,000 

Endowment  25,000 

Maintenance  for  Five  Years  2,500 


SI 


Baptist  Italian  Mission,  Tampa,  Fla 


LONG  CREEK  ACADEMY,  MOUNTAIN  REST,  S.  C. 
Buildings  for  Industrial  Departments  and 


Equipment  $  4,000 

Water,  Sewerage  and  Lights  3,000 

Central  Heating  Plant,  Addition  to  Boys’ 

Building  3,000 

Maintenance  for  Five  Years  6,000 

HIAWASSEE  ACADEMY,  HIAWASSEE,  GA. 

For  Administration  Building  $25,000 

For  Girls’  Dormitory  15,000 

For  Boys'  Dormitory  12.000 

For  Additional  Grounds  3,000 

Endowment  25,000 

Maintenance  for  Five  Years  2,500 

BLA1RSYILLE  INSTITUTE,  BLAIRSVILLE,  GA. 

For  Repairs  and  Addition  to  Administration 
Building  $  2,500 

Maintenance  for  Five  Years  2,500 

BLACKLEY  INSTITUTE,  CLAYTON,  GA. 

Addition  to  Boys'  Dormitory  $  2.000 

Additional  Grounds  1,000 

Maintenance  for  Five  Years  2,500 

NORTH  GEORGIA  BAPTIST  COLLEGE,  MORGAN- 
TON,  GA. 

For  Boys'  Dormitory  $  2,500 

Maintenance  for  Five  Years  2,500 

NEW  SCHOOL  AT  SOME  POINT  IN  NORTHWEST 

GEORGIA 

For  Buildings  and  Equipment  $60,000 

BEESON  ACADEMY,  PISGAH,  ALA. 

For  Completion  of  Girls'  Dormitory  $  1,000 

For  Boys'  Dormitory  3,000 

Maintenance  for  Five  Years  4,000 

ELDRIDGE  ACADEMY,  ELDRIDGE,  ALA. 

Girls’  Dormitory  (replacing  one  destroyed 

by  fire)  $  8,000 

Enlargement  of  Administration  Building  4000 

Heating  Plant  1,800 

Additional  Grounds  800 

Repairs  on  Boys’  Dormitory  1,500 

Maintenance  for  Five  Years  6.000 


GAYLESVTLLE  ACADEMY,  GAYLESVILLE,  ALA. 


Water,  Sewerage  and  Lights  $  3,000 

Repairs  2,400 

Maintenance  for  Five  Years  5.000 

TENNESSEE  RIVER  INSTITUTE,  BRIDGEPORT,  ALA. 
Additional  Grounds  $  2,000 

Repairs  4,000 

Heating  Plant  1,200 

Endowment  25.000 

Maintenance  for  Five  Years  7,500 

MOUNTAIN  HOME  INSTITUTE,  MOUNTAIN  HOME, 
ARK. 

Girls’  Dormitory  $30,000 

Boys’  Dormitory  20,000 

Repairs  3,000 

Endowment  25.000 

Maintenance  for  Five  Years  6,000 

MAYNARD  ACADEMY,  MAYNARD,  ARK. 

Boys'  Dormitory  $  4.000 

Repairs  1.000 

Maintenance  for  Five  Years  5.000 

BLUE  EYE  SCHOOL  BLUE  EYE,  MO. 

To  Complete  Administration  Building  $  3,000 

Dormitory  for  Boys  3,000 

Dormitory  for  Girls  3,500 

Maintenance  for  Five  Years  4.000 

HAGARVILLE  SCHOOL,  ARK. 

To  Erect  School  at  Hagarville  $25,000 

SOUTHWEST  BAPTIST  COLLEGE,  BOLIVAR,  MO. 
Dormitory  for  Girls  $30,000 

Dormitory  for  Boys  25,000 

Endowment  25.000 

Maintenance  for  Five  Years  4,000 

SUMMARY  OF  MOUNTAIN  SCHOOL  NEEDS 

Maintenance  $173,000 

Buildings  and  Plant  715,000 

Endowment  for  Selected  Schools  400.000 


Total  for  Mountain  Schools  for 


Five  Years  $1,288,900 


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A  North  Carolina  Mountain  Woman 


FOREIGNERS.  INDIANS  AND  NEGROES 


MEXICANS 

HERE  are  about  1,000,000  Mexicans 
in  the  Southern  Baptist  Convention 
territory  in  the  Southwest.  In  Texas 
are  600,000,  in  New  Mexico  200,000, 
in  Louisiana  about  75,000,  and  in 
Arkansas,  Oklahoma  and  Missouri  an  increasing 
though  smaller  number. 

The  Home  Board  began  its  Mexican  work  in 
Texas,  in  1907,  conjointly  with  the  Texas  Mis¬ 
sion  Board.  The  work  has  increased  till  the 
present,  but  not  so  rapidly  as  the  influx  of  people 
from  old  Mexico.  The  essentially  inter-State 
character  of  the  service,  the  heavy  burdens  in 
other  directions  of  the  Texas  Mission  Board,  and 
the  necessity  which  is  continually  becoming  more 
apparent  of  building  up  adequate  educational 
plants  and  church  buildings  for  the  Mexicans, 
have  led  the  Texas  Baptists  and  the  Home  Mis¬ 
sion  Board  to  agree  to  put  the  work  for  Mexi¬ 
cans  entirely  in  the  hands  of  the  Home  Mission 
Board. 

The  Baptist  Mission  for  the  Mexicans  leads  all 
others  in  evangelism.  The  time  is  ripe  for  equip¬ 
ping  this  service,  for  conserving  what  we  win  and 
making  the  work  more  permanent.  With  the  pro¬ 
gram  outlined  below,  the  Home  Board  will  be 
able  not  only  to  become  the  predominating  fac¬ 


tor  in  Christianizing  this  great  and  growing  body 
of  Spanish-speaking  foreigners  in  the  Southwest, 
hut  will  through  the  schools  and  evangelistic  serv¬ 
ice  be  an  invaluable  aid  toward  evangelizing  old 
Mexico.  The  Mexicans  more  and  more  send  their 
children  to  Texas  for  education,  and  our  con¬ 
verts  are  continually  going  back  to  Mexico  to  help 
leaven  with  the  truth  the  lump  of  Roman  Cath¬ 
olic  tradition. 

The  first  of  the  tabular  statements  below  gives 
the  cost  of  a  five-year  program  in  sustaining  the 
missionary  personnel.  The  second  is  a  program 
for  school  and  church  building.  Its  wisdom  will 
be  seen,  when  it  is  remembered  that  Baptists 
have  only  one  building  in  the  Mexican  work  in 
Texas  which  approximates  adequacy.  The  five- 
year  program  proposes  in  the  most  economical 
way  consistent  to  provide  for  the  needs  resultant 
on  this  accumulated  work.  The  program  in  New 
Mexico  for  200,000  Mexicans  is  given  in  lump 
sum,  because  this  work  must  be  built  up  from 
nothing. 

COST  OF  TEXAS  MEXICAN  MISSIONARY  PER¬ 
SONNEL 


San  Antonio 

$5,880 

Del  Rio 

1.200 

Uvalde 

1.200 

Brownsville 

1,200 

Corpus  Christi 

1,200 

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Baptlit  Church.  Bellerille,  Ill.  (Town  of  25.000 — One  other  Baptist  Church,  with  only  53  members.) 


Mercedes 

900 

San  Angelo 

900 

Laredo 

2,500 

Bastrop 

900 

Austin 

2,580 

San  Marcos 

1,200 

Kerrville 

1,560 

Rock  Port 

900 

Bryan 

900 

Waco 

uoo 

Ft.  Worth  and  Dallas 

1.800 

Gulf  Coast  Missionary 

900 

New  Fields 

4.000 

Publications 

1.20R 

COST  OF  HOME  BOARD  WORK  AT  EL 
PASO.  AND  SUPERINTENDENT 
El  Paso  Preacher  and  Teacher  $5,880 

Salary  of  Superintendent  2.400 

Traveling  Expense  900 —  9,180 


Total  for  One  Year  $  41.300 

Total  for  Five  Tears  $206,500 

BUILDING  PROGRAM 

San  Antonio  Church  and  School  Buildings  $150,000 
El  Paso  Church  and  School  Buildings  104,000 

Laredo  Building  for  Church  and  School  10  000 
Austin  Building  for  Church  and  School  10.000 

Brownsville  Building  for  Church  and  School  10,000 

Corpus  Christi  Building  for  Church  and 
School  5.000 

Waco  Building  for  Church  and  School  4.000 

Ft.  Worth  Church  Building  2.000 

Dallas  Church  Building  2.000 

Other  Places,  Church  Buildings  32,000 


lation  influx  has  created  unusual  conditions  and 
need.  In  addition  we  have  provided  for  the  erec¬ 
tion  of  needed  mission  buildings  at  Norfolk  and 
in  the  Oklahoma  coal  fields. 


ALABAMA 

Foreigners  in  Birmingham  and  Swedes  at 

Silver  Hill  $  4.125 


FLORIDA 

Work  Among  Cubans  at  Tampa  39,520 

Work  Among  Italians  at  Tampa  44.240 

ILLINOIS 

Work  Among  Foreigners  41.250 


LOUISIANA 

School  Work  for  French  in  Southern  Louis¬ 
iana  46,750 


MARYLAND 

Pastoral  Evangelism  for  Russians  and  Ger¬ 
mans  5,003 

MISSOURI 

Pastoral  Evangelism  for  Germans  and  Swedes  4.500 


OKLAHOMA 

Work  by  Three  Women  13.595 

Mission  Buildings  at  Coalgate  4.OU0 

Three  Buildings  in  McAlister  Field  10,000 

TEXAS 

Work  at  Galveston  7,1.55 

VIRGINIA 

Mission  at  Norfolk  11,560 

New  Work  and  Improvement  of  Plant  at  Nor¬ 
folk  5,000 


Total  $319,000 

New  Mexico  (to  open  Mexican  Work)  50,000 

TOTAL  FOR  MEXICAN  WORK  FOR  FIVE 

YEARS  $575,500 

OTHER  FOREIGNERS 

In  estimating  the  needs  in  this  service  for  the 
next  five  years  we  have  added  only  ten  per  cent 
to  the  cost  of  the  work  actuallv  being  done  now, 
except  in  the  Norfolk  field,  where  the  great  popu¬ 


Total  for  Five  Years  $236,995 

INDIAN  WORK 

MISSISSIPPI 

One  Missionary  to  Choctaws  ?  6,000 

Building  for  Choctaw  Church  3,5*30 

Building  for  Pastor's  Home  3.000 

NORTH  CAROLINA 

Current  Support  of  Missionary  to  Cherokee*  6,000 

Improvement  for  Cherokee  Building*  5.000 

Croatan  Indian  Work  6,000 


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Good  Will  Center.  Me  Alcsti-r,  Okl; 


OKLAHOMA 

Indian  Department,  Baptist  State  College  10,000 

Current  Support  and  Expenses  of  Worker 

among  Twelve  Indian  Schools  10,000 

Current  Support  and  Expenses  of  Worker 
among  Sac  and  Fox,  Shawnee  and  Potta- 
wottomies,  etc.  10,000 

Current  Support  and  Expenses  of  Three 

Workers  among  Pawnees  and  Otoes  16,000 

Repairs  and  Improvements  2,000 

Current  Support  and  Expenses  of  Three 

Workers  among  Osages  16,000 

FLORIDA 

Florida  Seminoles  (estimated)  4,000 

Total  for  Five  Years  $94,000 


NEGRO  WORK 

Of  the  10,000,000  Negroes  in  this  country  3,- 
000,000  are  members  of  Baptist  churches,  more 
of  them  by  far  belong  to  the  Baptists  than  to  all 
other  Christian  denominations  combined. 

This  popularity  of  the  Baptist  faith  among  the 
blacks  is  in  no  small  measure  a  result  of  the  de¬ 
votion  of  Baptists  in  the  South  to  evangelizing 
the  Negroes.  It  is  also  an  open  door  of  oppor¬ 
tunity.  More  Negroes  are  open  to  approach  on 
the  part  of  white  Baptists  without  hindering  preju¬ 
dices  than  are  open  to  the  efforts  of  any  other 
Christian  group. 

The  Home  Mission  Board  has  always  aided  in 
Christianizing  the  blacks  and  is  still  doing  so. 
It  has  not  until  yet  entered  largelv  the  educa¬ 
tional  field  among  them.  When  we  became  able 
after  the  Civil  War,  we  found  the  field  already 
occupied  by  Northern  Baptists.  1  he  Home  Mis¬ 
sion  Society  came  into  the  South  after  the  Civil 
War  and  developed  an  educational  work  for  the 
Negroes,  naturally  according  to  its  own  ideals. 

The  Society  has  done  a  valuable  work  in  edu¬ 
cating  the  blacks.  The  Home  Mission  Board  has 


aided  in  maintaining  Bible  instructors  in  a  num¬ 
ber  of  Negro  Baptist  schools  in  the  South  which 
are  not  aided  by  the  Home  Mission  Society. 
But  until  now  our  Board  has  done  most  of  its 
Negro  work  in  evangelistic  missions  and  through 
institutes  and  doctrinal  teaching. 

There  are  a  number  of  influential  Negro  schools 
of  our  denomination  which  have  grown  up  in  the 
South,  with  the  good  will  and  moral  support  of 
the  white  Baptists  about  them,  but  with  the  entire 
ownership  and  direction  of  their  school  property 
in  their  own  hands.  By  aiding  these  institutions 
to  a  fuller  and  better  service,  the  Home  Board 
would  contribute  for  Southern  white  Baptist*  a 
worthy  suppoit  and  direct  cn  to  the  religious  edu¬ 
cation  of  the  Negroes.  We  would  thus  add,  in 
schools  where  our  own  peculiar  Southern  genius 
for  helping  the  Negroes  could  develop  unhin¬ 
dered,  a  worthy  contribution  to  the  religious  in¬ 
struction  of  the  Negro  race.  This  would  bring 
both  general  Baptist  bodies  together  in  a  common 
work,  but  without  any  danger  of  conflict  of  ideals, 
which  might,  instead  of  promoting  harmony, 
cause  friction  and  disharmony. 

GENERAL  NEGRO  MISSIONARIES 


Arkansas 

$  5,000 

Alabama 

12,000 

Florida 

2,000 

Georgia 

6,000 

Kentucky 

6,500 

Louisiana 

2,500 

Mississippi 

2.500 

Missouri 

2,000 

Oklahoma 

2,000 

South  Carolina 

3.500 

Tennessee 

4,000 

Texas 

6,000 

Virginia 

6.000 

Total  for  Negro  Alissionaries  for  Five 
Years  $60,000 


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Slate  University  (Negro),  Louisville,  Ky. 


SPECIAL  INSTRUCTORS  IN  INSTITUTES 

For  a  number  of  years  the  Board  lias  had 
picked  men  engaged  as  instructors  in  Bible  in¬ 
stitutes  for  Negro  ministers,  deacons  and  others. 
This  work  lias  proven  of  first-rate  value.  It  is 
capable  of  reaching  many  hundreds  of  ministers 
and  others  who  have  not  had  and  will  not  get 
the  advantage  of  special  Bible  instruction  in  a 
school.  The  obvious  need  of  this  service  and  the 
favor  with  which  our  Negro  brethren  look  upon 
it  indicate  that  we  should  put  at  least  twelve  care- 
fuih  chosen  men  into  this  work,  at  an  average 
cost  of  salarv  and  traveling  expenses  of  $1,800 
each,  which  would  involve  an  annual  outlay  of 
$21,600. 

Personnel  Cost  Twelve  Institute  Instructors  for 

Five  Years  $108, COO 

NEGRO  BAPTIST  SCHOOLS 

It  has  been  difficult  to  get  all  the  information 
necessary  to  set  forth  a  program  in  this  direc¬ 
tion.  The  figures  here  given  are  tentative.  They 
are  subject  to  revision  on  closer  study  in  special 
cases.  But  the  total  expenditure  outlined  is  small 
compared  with  the  opportunities. 

Vie  have  in  our  possession  scores  of  pictures 
and  letters  showing  the  situation  in  these  Bap¬ 
tist  colleges  of  our  Negro  brethren.  Each  of 
these  institutions  already  has  a  property  of  its 
own.  This  property  varies  in  value  from  $20,000 
to  $125,000.  There  is  not  much  debt  on  any  of 
the  plants  and  the  titles  are  held  by  our  Negro 
brethren.  These  schools  swarm  with  students. 

White  Baptists  in  the  South  cannot  afford  to 
stand  by  and  have  no  part  in  helping  to  shape  and 
direct  so  momentous  a  work  as  training  the  souls 
and  the  hands  of  the  Negro  youth  who  will  live 
here  in  the  South  alongside  of  our  own  children 
The  following  is  the  list  of  Negro-owned  Bap¬ 
tist  colleges  in  the  South,  with  the  amount  of  aid 


for  five  years  which  the  Home  Board  could  prob¬ 
ably  wisely  expend,  after  making  the  necessary 


investigations  and  adaptations: 

ALABAMA 

Selma  University  $  20,000 

ARKANSAS 

Arkansas  Baptist  College  40.000 

FLORIDA 

Florida  Baptist  College  20.000 

GEORGIA 

Central  City  College  40,000 

Rome  Industrial  School  5.000 

KENTUCKY 

Baptist  State  University  40.000 

LOUISIANA 

Louisiana  College  40.000 

MISSISSIPPI 

Natchez  College  20.000 

MISSOURI 

Western  College  20.000 

OKLAHOMA 

Oklahoma  State  Baptist  College  40.000 

SOUTH  CAROLINA 

Morris  College  40.000 

TENNESSEE 

Roger  Williams  University  40.000 

TEXAS 

Houston  College  40,000 

Total  $405,000 

SUMMARY  OF  NEGRO  WORK  FOR  FIVE  YEARS 
General  Negro  Evangelists  $  60,000 

Twelve  Institute  Instructors  108,000 

Aid  to  Negro  Baptist  Schools  405,000 


Total  for  Negro  Work  for  Five  Years  $573,000 


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Manual  Training  at  Arkansas  Baptist  College,  Little  Rock,  Ark. 

CUBA 


E  have  in  Cuba  a  next-door  neighbor 
to  whom  in  the  Spanish-American 
war  we  brought  freedom  from  the 
political  tyranny  of  Spain.  All  the 
same  does  she  need  deliverance  from 
the  bondage  of  sin  and  superstition,  which  so 
abounds  in  the  fair  island. 

Our  work  there  has  steadily  increased  in  effi¬ 
ciency  and  the  prospects  are  bright  for  the  future. 
Evangelization  and  enlistment  must  be  pressed 
as  never  before.  At  present  and  for  five  years 
to  come,  we  must  give  our  workers  additional 
equipment  in  the  way  of  modest  chapels  at  a  num¬ 
ber  of  stations. 

But  our  heaviest  work  must  be  on  educational 
lines.  Our  college  in  Havana  must  be  put  solid¬ 
ly  on  its  feet.  Our  girls’  seminary  at  Santa  Clara 
must  be  equipped  and  strengthened.  These  two 
schools  are  our  greatest  single  agency  for  the  sal¬ 
vation  and  uplift  of  Cuba. 

The  following  survey  sets  forth  our  needs  in 
a  striking  manner.  As  originally  prepared,  each 
item  was  set  forth  for  each  mission.  We  have 
been  compelled  to  compress  this. 

CURRENT  EXPENSE  AND  EQUIPMENT 

The  current  expenses  for  the  year  1919-1920 
are  $48,328.  Allowing  an  annual  increase  of  ten 
per  cent,  which  would  be  conservative  and  supply 
the  needs  of  only  a  normal  errowth,  we  have  for 
current  expenses  during  the  five  years,  $295,042. 

The  following  sums  are  needed  to  equip  mis¬ 
sion  centers  now  in  operation,  and  the  few  new 
centers  which  are  indicated  as  follows: 


PINAR  DEL  RIO  PROVINCE 

GUANE 

Extreme  western  railway  point.  A  town  of 
only  three  thousand,  but  the  center  of  a 
large  district  fifty  miles  in  diameter,  filled 
with  villages  and  country  settlements.  For 
lot,  chapel,  pastor’s  home  and  two  school¬ 
rooms  $  ?, OCHS' 

SAN  JUAN  AND  SAN  LUIS 

Two  towns  six  miles  apart,  with  many  outly¬ 
ing  villages  and  country  settlements.  Two 
lots,  two  chapels  and  one  pastor’s  home  12,000 

PINAR  DEL  RIO 

Capital  of  province.  Now  has  chapel,  pastor’s 
home  and  sufficient  lot  for  school  building. 

School  building  5,000 

VINALES 

Town  situated  away  from  railway  communica¬ 
tion,  center  of  large  district.  Chapel  and 
pastor’s  home,  including  lot  6,000 

SAN  ANDRES  AND  LA  PALMA 

Two  towns  with  outlying  country  regions. 

San  Andres  already  supplied  with  chapel. 

One  chapel,  lot  and  pastor’s  home  6,000 

MAREIL  AND  GUANAJAY 

Two  towns  with  approximately  sixteen  thou¬ 
sand  inhabitants,  with  outlying  villages  and 
country  districts.  Two  chapels,  two  lots 
and  pastor’s  home  12,000 

ARTEMISA  AND  SMALLER  TOWNS  (New 
Field) 

Important  town  far  removed  from  other  mis¬ 
sions.  Lot,  chapel  and  pastor’s  home  8.1)00 


Total  for  Privince  $  56,000 


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HAVANA  PROVINCE 


HAVANA 

City  of  over  four  hundred  thousand  and  rap¬ 
idly  growing.  City  and  suburbs  have  three 
organized  churches,  four  schools  and  ten 
preaching  stations.  Here  should  be  our 
future  college  for  the  Island.  The  Method¬ 
ists  have  spent  over  two  hundred  thousand 
on  Candler  College  and  plan  to  invest  as 
much  more.  They  will  also  spend  a  large 
amount  in  building  up  their  downtown 
church  and  school.  Desirable  building 


sites  are  expensive. 

Cuban  American  College,  lot,  buildings  and 

equipment  $250  000 

Immanuel  Church,  building  15,000 

Bethel  Church,  lot  and  building  15.000 

Printery  5,000 

GtJANABACOA 

City  of  fifteen  thousand,  near  Havana.  Lot, 

chapel,  pastor's  home  and  school  15,000 

REGLA 

City  of  twelve  thousand,  near  Havana.  Lot, 

chapel  and  pastor's  home  12,000 

BATANANO 

Town  of  six  thousand  with  adjacent  town  of 

three  thousand.  Lot,  chapel  and  home  7,000 


Total  for  Province  $319,000 


MATANZAS  PROVINCE 

CARDENAS 

City  of  thirty  thousand.  Has  chapel  with  lot 
for  home.  Pastor's  home  $  4,000 

PERICO  (New  Field) 

Town  of  importance,  the  center  of  large 
thickly  populated  district.  Lot,  chapel  and 
pastor’s  home  7,000 

Total  for  Province  $11,000 

SANTA  CLARA  PROVINCE 

SAGUA  LA  GRANDE 

Important  city  off  north  coast,  has  chapel  with 
lot  for  home,  should  have  school  also.  Pas¬ 
tor's  home  $  5,000 

SANTA  CLARA 

Capital  of  the  province.  Important  town  oth¬ 
erwise.  Has  school  which  we  plan  to  de¬ 
velop  into  girls’  boarding  school.  Enlarge¬ 
ment  to  school  building  7,000 

ESPERANZA 

Important  town  fifteen  miles  west  of  Santa 

Clara.  Lot,  chapel  and  home  7,000 

CAMAJUANI 

Town  of  six  thousand,  twenty  miles  north  of 
Santa  Clara,  center  of  district  of  villages 
and  country  settlements.  Lot,  chapel, 
home  and  schoolrooms  10,000 

PALMIRA  AND  CAMARONES 

Two  growing  towns  near  Cienfuegos.  Two 

lots,  two  chapels,  home  10.000 


Cherokee  Women  in  Western  North  Carolina.  Home  of  the  Tribe. 


CUMANAYAGUA 

Center  of  rich  and  populous  cane  section. 

Chapel,  home  and  schoolrooms  6,000 

CIENFUEGOS 

City  of  fifty  thousand  on  south  coast.  Cen¬ 
ter  of  important  district.  We  have  pastor’s 
home  and  lot  for  chapel.  Chapel  12,000 

TRINIDAD 

City  of  fifteen  thousand  far  removed  from 
other  mission  fields.  Center  of  populous 
district.  We  have  pastor’s  home  and  lot 
for  chapel.  Chapel  5,00# 

SANCTI  SPIRITUS 

City  of  eighteen  thousand.  Center  of  popu¬ 
lous  and  important  section.  Values  are 
high  and  lot  alone  cannot  be  secured  for 
less  than  $7,000.  Lot,  chapel,  pastor’s 


home  and  school  building 

18,000 

GUAYOS 

Rapidly  growing  point  in  newly  developed 
cane  section.  Lot,  chapel,  home  and  school¬ 
rooms  3  000 

Total  for  Province 

$106,000 

RECAPITULATION 

PROPERTIES  AND  BUILDINGS 

Pinar  del  Rio  Province 

Havana  Province 

Matanzas 

Santa  Clara  Province 

$  56  000 
319  000 
11.000 
106,000 

Total  Property 

Current  Expense  (personnel,  rents,  etc.) 
Education  (not  provided  otherwise) 

$492,000 
295  042 
10.000 

Total  Cub.n  Missions  for  Five  Years 

$797,042 

in 


PANAMA 


UR  work  in  the  Canal  Zone  must  be 
substantially  increased  within  the 
next  five  years. 

During  the  construction  of  the 
canal  we  were  in  an  experimental 
stage,  with  the  working  forces  on  the  canal  some¬ 
times  numbering  more  than  35,000  men.  As  the 
great  enterprise  approached  completion,  the  forces 
were  depleted  to  a  few  thousand  men. 

The  operation  and  upkeep  of  the  canal  will 
call  for  a  permanent  population  far  greater  than 
was  at  one  time  contemplated. 

The  commercial  and  international  importance 
of  the  canal  constitutes  another  pressing  reason 
for  making  our  work  strong  and  effective. 
Through  this  great  highway  ships  will  pass  from 
all  quarters  of  the  globe  and  the  gospel  message 


can  he  preached  to  people  from  all  lands.  It  is 
a  vitally  strategic  location  from  which  to  send 
out  gospel  influences  into  central  South  America 
and  the  Carribean  country.  We  must  erect  two 
or  three  church  buildings  within  the  Zone  at  the 
earliest  date  possible,  one  at  Cristobal,  the  At¬ 
lantic  terminus  of  the  canal,  and  two  on  the  Pa¬ 
cific  side. 

In  addition  to  these,  we  ought  to  have  a  first- 
class  school  at  the  best  point  in  the  Canal  Zone. 
The  program  for  the  next  five  years  must  be  at 
least: 

FOR  PANAMA 

For  Salaries  of  Four  or  Five  Workers  $31,5#0 

For  Improvements  on  Property  and  Three 
Church  Buildings  45,000 

Total  for  Five  Years  $76,500 


WORK  AMONG  SOLDIERS,  MARINES  AND  SAILORS 


E  have  done  a  great  work  for  the  sol¬ 
diers  in  the  camps  and  regular  army 
posts  during  the  war.  We  must  con¬ 
tinue  the  work  till  demobilization  is 
completed.  We  must  “carry  on” 
after  that  time  among  the  men  of  the  regular 
armv  and  navy  at  the  permanent  camps  and  army 
posts,  base  hospitals,  aviation  fields,  marine 
stations  and  navy  yards  and  for  sailors  at  our 
ports  of  entry. 

In  a  number  of  our  ports  we  should  have  sea¬ 
men?  bethels  under  the  management  of  capable 


and  godly  men,  where  the  finest  opportunity  is 
offered  to  imbue  men  with  the  spirit  of  Christ 
who  in  turn  will  make  him  known  as  far  as  the 
ocean  bears  its  foam. 

We  shall  need,  according  to  our  present  basis 
of  operations  and  to  include  the  work  among  the 
sailors  and  marines,  at  least  $40,000  a  year. 

ARMY,  MARINES  AND  SAILORS  FOR  FIVE 

YEARS  $200,000 


SANATORIUM 


HE  Southern  Baptist  Convention  at 
Hot  Springs,  Arkansas,  in  May,  1918, 
instructed  the  Home  Mission  Board 
to  establish  a  Tuberculosis  Sanato¬ 
rium  and,  on  the  recommendation  of 
our  Special  Commission,  accepted  the  proposition 
from  El  Paso,  Texas,  to  locate  the  sanatorium 
adjoining  that  city. 

The  proposition  from  El  Paso  contained  a  gift 
of  one  hundred  and  forty  acres  of  land  and  build¬ 
ings  and  improvements  valued  at  something  like 
$75,000.  Alterations  were  made  in  the  buildings 
at  a  moderate  cost  and  the  sanatorium  was  opened 
for  patients  only  in  1919,  and  is  being  admirably 
conducted  under  the  superintendency  of  Rev.  H. 
F.  Vermillion. 

At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Home  Mission 
Board,  June  4-6,  1919,  the  Board  adopted  the  fol¬ 


lowing  recommendations  of  the  Committee  on  the 
Sanatorium: 

“Your  Committee  would  recommend  that  in 
our  five-year  program  we  shall  put  into  buildings 
and  equipments  the  sum  of  five  hundred  thousand 
dollars,  and  that  we  create  an  endowment  fund 
of  five  hundred  thousand  dollars,  the  income  of 
which  shall  be  used  for  the  purpose  of  combat¬ 
ting  tuberculosis  throughout  the  South,  and  for 
the  care  of  indigent  tuberculars  in  the  Sana¬ 
torium.” 

The  definite  purpose  of  the  Board  for  this  five- 
year  period  is  thus  set  forth,  which  carries: 

FOR  SANATORIUM 

For  Buildings  and  Equipment  $500,000 

For  Endowment  500,000 


Total  for  Five  Years 


$1,000,000 


IMPARTING  INFORMATION 


E  mu.-l  think  of  tlie  Home  Hoard’s 
Publicity  Department  in  broader 
terms  than  may  be  suggested  by  the 
word  publicity.  It  is  really  a  serv¬ 
ice  of  imparting  information  and  of 
communication.  It  is  an  educational  service, 
mainly,  though  not  entirely,  through  the  printed 


page. 

1b  these  days  the  public  is  being  approached 
with  many  a  propaganda,  a  large  proportion  of 
w  hich  are  new  and  strange.  Some  of  these  would 
undermine  social  security,  and  the  very  founda¬ 
tions  of  faith.  In  such  a  day,  we  must  assuredly 
see  to  it  that  Christian  principles  and  Christian 


activities  are  kept  in  the  minds  and  on  the  hearts 
of  the  people,  as  the  only  hope  of  public  safety 
and  progress,  as  well  as  of  personal  salvation. 
To  do  this  we  must  use  the  printed  page  as  well 
as  the  spoken  word. 

To  provide  adequately  for  free  tract  production 
and  distribution,  for  the  production  of  mission 
study  books,  for  an  informational  press  news 
service,  for  a  proper  advertising  budget,  and  for 
other  activities  of  imparting  informatiom  among 
our  denomination  of  3,000,000  membership  will 
require  an  expenditure  of  not  less  than  $35,000 
yearly,  or  of  $175,000  for  five  years. 

PUBLICITY  FOR  FIVE  YEARS  $175,000 


ADMINISTRATIVE  AND  OTHER  OPERATING  EXPENSES 


E  are  basing  our  estimate  of  cost  in 
this  field  on  the  actual  experience 
outlined  for  the  present  fiscal  year, 
with  an  increase  of  about  eight  per 
cent,  a  very  modest  provision  for  the 
probable  increases  in  official  personnel  and  other 
operating  expenses  necessary  to  conserve  wisely 
an  expenditure  of  an  average  of  more  than  $2,- 
000,000  a  year.  In  fact,  it  is  inevitable  that  our 
increased  operations  will  require  more  careful 
superintendency  and  scrutiny  by  the  Correspond¬ 
ing  Secretary  and  his  official  family. 

It  is  yet  somewhat  uncertain  how  far  the  Board 
will  be  required  to  go  in  furnishing"  workers  to 
help  in  keeping  up  the  interest  and  collecting 


the  subscriptions  which  the  75  Million  Campaign 
will  bring  together  in  the  next  few  months.  If 
any  large  requirements  develop  in  this  field,  the 
administrative  and  operating  expenses  given  be¬ 
low  will  not  be  sufficient. 

Costs  which  we  designate  as  other  operating 
expenditures  are  such  as  the  expense  of  main¬ 
taining  the  Layman’s  Missionary  Movement, 
Woman’s  Missionary  LTnion,  Sunday  School  Mis¬ 
sionary  Day,  Convention  Annual.  Association 
Representatives,  etc.  To  cover  the  cost  under  this 
head  will  require  $90,000  yearly,  or  $450,000  for 
five  years. 

ADMINISTRATIVE  AND  OTHER  OPERAT¬ 
ING  EXPENSES  FOR  FIVE  YEARS  $450,000 


An  Indian  Doctor — A  Buptist  Deacon 


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STATE  MISSIONS 


SUMMARY  OF  NEEDS 


Church  Buildings  $  750,923 

Enlistment  994,173 

Evangelism  1,607,500 

Sunday  School,  B.  Y.  P.  U.  and  W.  M.  U.  Work  986,271 

^General  Missionary  Work  6,358,297 


Total  Needs  $10,697,164 


DESCRIPTION  OF  NEEDS 


TATE  Missions  is  mission  work  in 
close  quarters.  It  marks  off  a 
definite  area  and  attempts  to  bring 
the  Gospel  message  precisely  to 
every  portion  of  it.  It  seeks  out  the 
waste  places,  the  overlooked  corners,  and  carries 
the  message  to  them.  It  surveys  the  needs  of  its 
particular  area  and  attempts  to  provide  the  spe¬ 
cific  help  required,  whether  it  be  a  weak  church, 
a  churchless  community,  a  neglected  rural  dis¬ 
trict,  or  a  destitute  section  in  a  crowded  city. 
It  is  set  to  meet  the  mission  needs  within  its 
territory. 

On  the  other  hand,  it  fans  into  flame  the  mis¬ 
sion  fires  for  all  forms  of  missionary  endeavor. 
It  seeks  to  enlist  the  churches,  not  only  for  State 
M  issions  but  for  all  missions.  There  is  a  dis¬ 
tinction  between  our  State  Mission  Boards  and 
State  Mission  work.  State  Mission  work  is  mis¬ 
sion  effort  put  forth  within  the  border  of  a  State, 
but  the  State  Mission  Board  in  most  of  our  Stales 
not  only  fosters  missions  within  its  borders,  but 
the  mission  spirit  is  cultivated  within  its  bounds 
for  missionary  work  everywhere.  It  is  intensive 
cultivation  for  extensive  application. 

State  Missions  is  the  ultimate  form  of  mis¬ 
sions.  Foreign  Missions  is  a  pioneering  agency. 
It  opens  new  fields  and  starts  the  natives  forward 
in  their  church  life,  but  never  until  these  natives 
take  up  Home  Missions,  in  behalf  of  their  own 
nations,  and  close  in  on  their  work  by  divisions 
in  State  Missions,  will  the  gospel  be  preached 
to  all  and  any  hope  of  complete  enlistment  for 
service  be  attained.  We  pray  for  the  time  to 
come  when  there  will  be  no  longer  a  need  for 
Foreign  Missions.  After  that  will  come  the  day 
when  in  the  various  nations  there  will  be  no 
need  for  Home  Missions  and  then  there  will  come 
a  day  still  more  to  be  desired  when  State  Mis¬ 


sions  in  all  the  States  in  all  the  world  will  met 
be  needed,  but  the  churches  will  do  their  duty 
to  their  communities,  the  Gospel  will  be  fully 
preached  and  the  great  Day  of  His  Appearing 
will  be  at  hand. 

There  are  now  in  the  territory  of  our  different 
States  approximately  13,000,000  unsaved  white 
people  who  have  reached  the  age  of  account¬ 
ability. 

We  have  3,391  towns  of  200  or  more  inhabi¬ 
tants  in  which  there  are  no  Baptist  churches  or 
Baptist  meeting  houses. 

We  have  seventy-four  county  seats  without 
churches  or  meeting  houses.  This  is  practically 
an  average  of  five  county  seats  to  every  State 
co-operating  with  the  Southern  Baptist  Conven¬ 
tion. 

We  have  approximately  9,000  non-contribut¬ 
ing,  non-cooperating  churches  in  our  Southern 
Baptist  territory. 

The  time  has  come  when  Baptists  must  prove 
themselves  a  city  people,  thorouDhly  capable  of 
taking  care  of  great  city  situations. 

We  have  in  our  different  States  19,638  once-a- 
month  churches.  Approximately  3,000  half¬ 
time  churches  and  2,200  full-time  churches. 

On  account  of  the  fact  that  the  State  Mission 
Apportionment  in  Kentucky  will  not  be  made  un¬ 
til  the  meeting  of  the  Convention  in  November 
and  on  account  of  a  difference  in  method  in  Mis¬ 
souri,  the  statements  with  reference  to  how  the 
apportionment  for  State  Missions  in  these  two 
States  will  be  spent  is  not  included  in  this  sur¬ 
vey. 


•Note. — The  itemization  of  the  activities  of  the  churches  ia  the  dilfee* 
ent  states  vary  so  widely  that  we  have  summarised  a  great  many 
these  items  under  the  heading  “General  Missionary  Work,”  rather  than* 
to  make  more  minute  divisions. 


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STATE  MISSION  BOARD  OF  ALABAMA 

W.  F.  Yakrrouch,  Secretary,  Mont(;omehy,  Ai.a. 


Though  in  its  incep¬ 
tion  a  Southern  Bap¬ 
tist  Convention  Move¬ 
ment  in  behalf  of  a 
war-wrecked  world, 
the  75  Million  Cam¬ 
paign  makes  a  mighty 
appeal  to  the  several 
States  in  the  interest 
of  their  own  work. 
For  instance,  there 
will  come  back  into 
State  Missions, 
church-bu  ilding, 
Christian  Education,  orphanage  and  hospital 
work  in  Alabama  more  than  half  of  the  four 
millions  which  she  prepares  to  raise.  State  Mis¬ 
sions  proper  will  receive  in  Alabama  upwards 
of  $580,000,  or  more  than  $100,000  per  year. 
Every  cent  of  this  is  needed  to  meet  needs  which, 
if  not  supplied  at  once,  will  menace  our  leader¬ 
ship  in  a  State  which,  by  right  of  inheritance,  be¬ 
longs  to  the  present  generation  of  Baptists. 

Unevangelized  communities,  unenlisted  forces, 
undeveloped  resources,  inadequate  meeting 


houses,  pastorless  churches,  untrained  young  peo¬ 
ple.  impending  perils  and  unparalleled  oppor¬ 
tunities  make  an  irresistible  appeal  to  Alabama 
Baptists  in  this  crucial  hour.  We  must  save  our 
selves  and  our  people  from  the  curse  of  turning 
back  at  Kadesh-Barnea.  To  fail  now  will  turn 
back  the  clock  of  destiny  for  Baptists  and  will 
dishonor  God. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Missionary  Pastors  $  12,500 

Church  Building  and  Repairs  10.000 

Enlistment  and  General  Missionaries  10.000 

W.  M.  U.  Department  10.000 

Sunday  School  Department  10.000 

Salaries  and  Office  Expenses  10.000 

Colportage  3,000 

B.  Y.  P.  U.  5,000 

Alabama  Baptist  5,000 

Convention  Expenses  5,000 

Summer  Assembly  Work  2,000 

Preachers’  Schools  2,000 


Total  First  Year  $  85,000 

These  needs  will  be  increased  about  15% 
each  year. 

Total  for  Five  Years  $586,666 


STATE  MISSION  BOARD  OF  ARKANSAS 


E.  P.  Aldrf.dge,  Secretary,  Little  Rock,  Ark. 


The  mountain  sec¬ 
tions  of  Arkansas 
comprise  almost  two- 
fifths  of  the  State  and 
are  our  most  destitute 
sections  Baptists  av¬ 
erage  fewer  than  one 
to  ten  of  the  popula¬ 
tion.  Two  county 
seats  have  no  Baptist 
churches  and  two 
counties  have  only 
one  Baptist  house  of 
worship  each.  The 
lowland  section  of  Arkansas  comprises  about 
three-tenths  of  the  State.  This  is  our  most  rap¬ 
idly  developing  section.  At  least  two  of  these 
counties  have  only  one  Baptist  preacher  each, 
located  within  their  borders. 

The  hill  section  comprises  three-tenths  of  the 
area  of  the  State  and  has  over  46  per  cent  of 
the  white  Baptists  of  the  State  among  30  per  cent 
of  the  white  population.  Enlistment  is  the  great 
need  of  this  section. 

We  need  much  enlistment  and  unification  work. 
Every  county  needs  at  least  one  good  missionary 


or  enlistment  man  whose  work  is  confined  to  the 
limits  of  the  county. 

Fully  four  hundred  houseless  or  as  good  aa 
houseless  churches  need  church  buildings  erected, 
not  during  the  next  five  years  but  during  the 
next  twelve  months. 


HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Seventy-six  Associational  and  County  Mis¬ 


sionaries  to  Do  Evangelical  Work  $103,100 

Student  Pastors — Student  Missionaries  6,400 

Eight  Enlistment  Men  and  Evangelists  24.000 

Church  Buildings  55,000 

S.  School  and  B.  Y.  P.  U.  Work,  Two  Men  6,500 

W.  M.  U.  Work  5,000 

Supplemented  Pastors  15.000 

Publicity  3,000 

Office  Expense  7,000 


Total  Annual  Needs  $225,000 

Total  Five-year  Needs  $1,125,000 

Less  amount  to  be  received  from  Home  Mis¬ 
sion  Board: 

Church  Extension  Department  $55,000 

Cooperative  Work,  Home  Board  30.000 


For  One  Year 
For  Five  Years 


$85,000 

$425,000 


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Total  Apportionment 


$700,000 


STATE  MISSION  BOARD  OF  FLORIDA 

S.  B.  Rogers.  Secretary,  Jacksonville,  Fla. 


The  following  is  the 
Baptist  situation  in 
Florida:  1,000.000 

people  in  the  State; 
750.000  without 
church  affiliation ; 
sixteen  nationalities 
in  the  State;  every 
State  in  the  Union 
and  nearly  every  na¬ 
tion  in  the  world  rep¬ 
resented;  there  are 
700  Baptist  churches 
in  Florida;  300 
homeless;  100  in  dilapidated  buildings;  many  of 
the  best  churches  endeavoring  to  equip  themselves 
with  better  plants;  111  houses  of  worship  on  the 
mission  field  in  course  of  construction;  a  mission 
field  from  border  to  gulf;  75  to  85  missionaries 
constantly  employed;  our  budget  before  the  drive 
began  $50,000  a  year  for  State  Missions:  our 
needs  for  State  Mission  activity  alone  should  be 
$1,000,000  in  five  years. 

This  is  our  recruiting  ground.  Here  is  our 
training  camp.  Through  our  evangelists  we  must 


draft  our  people  for  service.  Through  our  Sun¬ 
day  Schools,  Unions,  Societies  and  churches  we 
must  train  them  to  wage  this  mighty  battle  and 
win  this  Christian  crown.  This  department  of 
our  work  is  often  unappreciated  and  all  too  poor¬ 
ly  supported.  It  is  only  as  we  succeed  here  that 
we  can  hope  to  succeed  anywhere.  There  is  no 
department  of  our  organic  life  hut  must  depend 
to  a  degree  upon  State  Missions,  both  for  its  sup¬ 
ply  of  help  and  material  support.  Cripple  this 
interest  and  you  put  on  crutches  every  department 
from  home  benevolences  to  the  furthest  regions 
of  heathen  night.  We  must  have  better  churches, 
better  supported  pastors,  more  extensive  training 
and  a  deeper  concern  for  the  strength  of  our  base 
of  supply,  the  closest  possible  organic  union,  the 
deepest  fraternal  sympathy.  The  most  earnest 
and  zealous  activities  which  it  is  possible  for  us 
to  inaugurate  should  be  set  in  motion  from  the 
border  lines  to  the  Coral  Keys. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 

Purchasing  Lands  at  Mission  Points  Upon  Which  to 
Build 

Erecting  Houses  of  Worship 

Support  of  Missionaries,  Evangelists,  Sunday  School 
and  B.  Y.  P.  U.  Workers  and  Enlistment  Men 


STATE  MISSION  BOARD  OF  GEORGIA 

Arch  C.  Cree,  Corresponding  Secretary,  Atlanta,  Ga. 


State  Missions  is  the 
heart  of  our  Baptist 
Kingdom  program. 
The  heart  is  not  the 
source  of  blood,  but 
the  stimulating  and 
distributing  agency. 
Even  so.  State  Mis¬ 
sions  is  the  develop¬ 
ing  and  the  distribut¬ 
ing  agency  of  new 
life  and  forces  for  the 
support  of  all  other 
missionary,  benevo¬ 
lent  and  educational  interests.  Dr.  Frost  said, 
“State  Missions  are  the  undergirding  of  all 
our  enterprises.”  Dr.  Gray  points  to  State  Mis¬ 
sions  as  the  preparation  for  co-operative  work 
beyond  the  State.  Dr.  Love  declares,  “State  Mis¬ 
sions  is  fundamental  to  the  growth,  strength  and 
efficiency  of  the  denomination.”  If  the  heart  is 
weak,  then  the  head,  the  hand  and  the  foot  will 
be  weak.  Make  the  heart  strong  and  the  whole 
body  will  be  strong.  Strengthen  State  Missions 
and  you  strengthen  every  other  Kingdom  interest. 


Evangelism  is  the  primary  task  of  State  Mis¬ 
sions  and  with  over  a  million  souls  unreached  in 
Georgia,  it  has  a  great  field.  In  many  respects, 
Enlistment  is  the  greatest  task  before  Georgia 
Baptists,  as  is  indicated  by  the  staggering  num¬ 
ber  of  non-contributing  churches,  with  practically 
50  per  cent  of  the  membership  of  contributing 
churches  either  non-contributing  or  very  neglect¬ 
ful.  A  cursory  survey  of  the  needs  of  the  house¬ 
less  churches  and  the  inadequately  housed 
churches  in  Georgia  leads  to  the  conclusion  that 
somewhere  between  500  and  600  churches  should 
be  aided  in  building  adequate  houses  of  worship. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Evangelism 

$  30,000 

Enlistment 

30,000 

Sunday  School  and  B.  Y.  P.  U. 

10,000 

Pastoral  Aid 

50,000 

Church  Building 

30,000 

W.  B.  M.  U.  Work 

10,000 

Literature 

10,000 

Administration 

20,000 

Miscellaneous 

10  000 

Total  for  One  Year 

$200,000 

Total  for  Five  Years 

$1,000,000 

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STATE  MISSION  BOARD  OF  ILLINOIS 

R.  F.  Rodman,  Statu  Secretary,  Du  Quoin,  III. 


One  of  the  greatest 
mission  fields  in  the 
territory  of  the 
Southern  B  a  p  t  i  s  t 
Convention  is  located 
in  Illinois.  The  ter¬ 
ritory  referred  to  is 
East  St.  Louis  and 
adjacent  fields. 
Many  manufacturing 
establishments  are  to 
be  found  here  and 
others  are  coming  all 
the  time.  The  Bap¬ 
tists  were  late  beginning  in  this  territory,  but  they 
are  now  doing  a  splendid  work.  We  have  self- 
supporting  churches  and  ten  mission  fields  in  the 
territory.  Four  new  churches  have  been  organized 
during  the  last  year  in  this  field.  We  have  many 
other  towns  without  Baptist  churches,  among 
them,  some  county  seats.  And  a  few  entire 
counties  with  one  to  five  churches.  Surely,  this 
shows  the  importance  of  our  State  Mission  work 
and  should  appeal  to  every  Baptist  in  our  terri¬ 


tory.  In  cooperation  with  the  Home  Board,  we 
are  doing  evangelistic  and  enlistment  work  and 
this  work  ought  to  be  increased.  As  there  is  no 
provision  in  the  apportionment  for  a  church 
building  fund,  part  of  our  State  Mission  money 
will  have  to  be  turned  in  that  direction.  Churches 
are  constantly  calling  on  us  and  the  Home  Board 
for  help  to  build. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Evangelism 

$15,000 

Missionary  Pastors  in  Needy  Fields 

15,000 

Sunday  School  and  B.  Y.  P.  U.  Work 

5,000 

Woman’s  Missionary  Union  Work 

2,500 

Church  Building 

5,200 

Total  for  One  Year 

$42,700 

Total  for  Five  Years 

$213,500 

STATE  MISSION  BOARD  OF  KENTUCKY 

0.  E.  Bryan,  Secretary,  Louisville,  Ky. 


The  State  Mission  de¬ 
partment  of  our  de¬ 
nominational  work 
becomes  more  and 
more  each  year  the 
burden-bearer  of  all 
our  State  work.  Not 
many  years  ago  State 
Missions  meant  only 
evangelistic  work 
done  under  the  Board 
of  State  Missions. 
Today,  larger  State 
Missions  has  come  to 
mean  that  department  of  our  work  which  bears 
the  financial  burdens  of  all  of  our  growing  pro¬ 
gram.  Instead  of  the  Board  of  State  Missions 
doing  only  evangelistic  work,  we  now  have  a  State 
Board  of  Missions  taking  care  of  all  the  inter¬ 
ests  in  the  State. 

Larger  State  Missions  now  bears  the  financial 
burdens  of  the  more  than  one  hundred  missionary 
pastors  and  evangelists,  a  score  of  district  mis¬ 
sionaries,  more  than  a  half  dozen  general  evangel¬ 
ists  and  enlistment  men,  the  colportage  work  of 


our  State  Board,  army  camp  work  in  Camp 
Taylor  and  Camp  Knox,  more  than  a  half  dozen 
workers  among  the  Negroes  in  Kentucky,  the 
expenses  and  salaries  of  the  Sunday  School 
department,  B.  Y.  P.  U.  department,  and 
W.  M.  U.  department,  the  purchasing  price  of 
the  Western  Recorder,  the  expenses  of  the  75 
Million  Campaign  in  Kentucky  and  the  office  ex¬ 
penses  of  the  State  work,  which  includes  Secre¬ 
taries’  salaries,  more  than  twenty  clerical  work¬ 
ers  in  the  office  at  this  time  and  a  general  ovei- 
head  expense  in  printing  and  publicity.  It  is 
easily  seen  that  State  Missions  is  the  denomina¬ 
tional  pack-horse  for  all  of  the  work  done  by 
the  denomination  in  Kentucky. 


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STATE  MISSION  BOARD  OF  LOUISIANA 

Geo.  H.  Crutcher,  Secretary,  Shreveport,  La. 


We  expect  to  double 
the  work  of  the  W.  M. 
U.  of  Louisiana,  and 
to  greatly  enlarge 
both  Sunday  school 
and  B.  Y.  P.  U.  work. 
We  expect  to 
strengthen  the  Ital¬ 
ian  and  French  work 
and  to  open  up  work 
among  the  Spanish 
at  the  earliest  possi¬ 
ble  hour.  Church 
building  has  to  fig¬ 
ure  necessarily  large  with  us.  We  are  expect¬ 
ing  to  spend  $100,000  along  this  line  within 
the  next  five  years.  Our  enlistment  work  has  al¬ 
ready  been  increased.  We  have  the  following 
outstanding  points  of  destitution  in  Louisiana: 
222  towns  and  villages  with  no  white  Baptist 
church  in  them;  61  towns  of  above  500  inhabi¬ 
tants  with  no  white  Baptist  church  in  them;  16 
parish  seats  and  10  whole  parishes  with  no  white 
Baptist  church  in  them.  With  400,000  French- 
speaking  people,  75,000  Italians  and  50,000  Span¬ 


ish-speaking  people,  we  have  a  foreign  problem 
in  our  State  work. 

Louisiana  Baptists  have  the  greatest  encourage¬ 
ments  to  do  worthy  things  for  State  Missions  of 
any  people  anywhere.  The  people  hear  our  mes¬ 
sage  gladly,  they  respond  nobly,  God  blesses 
signally,  we  should  give  sacrificially.  The  State 
missionaries  have  done  their  work  faithfully,  the 
need  was  never  more  imperative,  our  giving  should 
be  the  most  cheerful  ever. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Evangelists 

$  35,000 

Enlistment 

45,000 

Church  Building 

75,000 

Sunday  School  Work 

45,000 

B.  Y.  P.  U.  Work 

35,000 

W.  M.  U. 

15,000 

Cooperative  Work 

155,000 

Italian  Work 

25,000 

French  Work 

50.000 

Spanish  Work 

20,000 

Total 

$500,000 

STATE  MISSION  BOARD  OF  MARYLAND 

W.  H.  Baylor,  Superintendent,  Baltimore,  Md. 


In  Maryland,  where 
Catholicism,  ritual¬ 
ism  and  formalism 
abound  there  is  great 
need  of  the  simple 
teachings  of  Christ  as 
presented  by  the  Bap¬ 
tists.  One-fourth  of 
the  counties  are  not 
ye  t  touched  by  us, 
with  almost  a  hun¬ 
dred  towns,  of  500 
or  more  people  in 
which  we  have  no 
Baptist  interest  whatever.  To  sustain  and  bring 
to  independence  many  struggling  churches,  as 
well  as  enter  places  hitherto  untouched  by  us, 
will  require  larger  and  more  sacrificial  giving. 
We  must  in  this  Campaign  give  immediate  atten¬ 
tion  to  the  claims  within  our  borders,  if  we  shall 
do  the  worthy  thing  in  the  coming  days,  beyond 
our  borders.  Maryland’s  destitution  and  need 
must  appeal  to  every  Baptist. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 

Missionary  Pastors  $10,000 


Evangelists  5,000 

New  Work  3,000 

Church  Building  Fund  10.000 

Sunday  School  and  B.  Y.  P.  U.  Work  2,000 

Russian  Work  1,000 

Woman’s  Work  (not  including  settlement)  2.000 

Office  (including  all  salaries)  5,000 


Total  Per  Year  $38,000 

For  Five  Years  $190,000 


The  above  is  the  minimum  that  we  would  re¬ 
quire.  We  are  now  raising  nearly  twice  as  much 
for  our  Church  Building  Fund.  This  Fund  is 
given  by  our  churches  to  help  supplement  the 
amount  raised  by  weak  interests  toward  their 
church  buildings.  The  only  item  above  that  has 
been  at  all  increased  is  the  amount  for  new  work, 
and  indeed  if  we  shall  do  much  of  this,  that  sum 
is  far  too  small.  The  Home  Board  has  been  gen¬ 
erous  enough  to  help  to  a  small  extent  in  our 
cooperative  work.  We  are  taking  it  for  granted 
in  the  above  modest  estimate  that  the  small 
amount  hitherto  contributed  will  be  continued. 


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STATE  MISSION  BOARD  OF  MISSISSIPPI 

J.  Benj.  Lawrence,  Secretary,  Jackson,  Miss. 


If  we  do  our  duty 
as  Baptists,  we  will 
build  in  Mississippi 
the  ideal  Christian 
commonwealth,  made 
strong  as  a  base  from 
which  to  operate  and 
strong  as  a  force  with 
which  to  operate  in 
world-wide  missions. 
This  is  a  great  task. 
To  do  it  our  State 
Mission  organization 
must  be  underpinned 
with  the  cooperative  support  of  the  one  hundred 
and  eighty  thousand  Baptists  of  the  State.  All 
our  allied  agencies  must  be  manned  for  this  task. 
No  short-sighted  vision  will  suffice  here.  No 
cramped  and  inadequate  program  will  meet  the 
needs  of  our  denomination.  Every  energy  and 
every  force  of  Mississippi  Baptists  must  be  har¬ 
nessed  and  directed  towards  the  accomplishment 
of  this  supreme  undertaking. 

We  have  thought  of  the  days  of  our  fathers  as 
pioneer  days  and  of  our  fathers  as  pioneers,  shap¬ 


ing  and  giving  form  to  the  denominational  life. 
And  such  they  were.  But  we  are  on  those  days 
again.  In  every  transition  period  there  are  pio¬ 
neer  souls  and  pioneer  work.  We  are  now  in  the 
transition  period.  The  men  and  women  of  this 
age  face  a  new  era  in  denominational  life;  they 
are  pioneers  of  a  new  period  of  denominational 
growth  and  development.  Will  they  be  as  faith- 
fu  in  their  day  as  their  fathers  were  in  theirs? 
We  believe  they  will.  Then  let  us  vow  to  keep 
our  hands  to  the  task  t  llithe  Kingdom  of  Heaven 
be  fully  come  in  Mississippi  and  the  world. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Pastoral  Support 

$  25,000 

Church  Building 

36.500 

Sunday  School  Work 

7,000 

B.  Y.  P.  U.  Work 

5,000 

Work  Among  the  Negroes 

2,500 

Work  Among  the  Indians 

1,000 

Six  District  Missionaries 

15,000 

Thirty  Associational  Missionaries 

30,000 

Overhead  Expense 

11.000 

Total  Per  Year 

$133,000 

Total  for  Five  Years 

$665,000 

EXECUTIVE  BOARD  OF  MISSOURI 

Joe  P.  Jacobs,  General  Secretary,  Kansas  City,  Mo. 


Three  million  dollars 
constitutes  our  finan¬ 
cial  objective  for  the 
next  five  years.  In 
order  to  raise  this 
amount,  the  Executive 
Board  has  divided  the 
$3,000,000  into  two 
parts,  consisting  of 
$1,500,000  each.  The 
first  $1,500,000  is  to 
be  raised  through  an 
apportionment  to  the 
churches  each  year 
for  five  years.  The  second  $1,500,000  is  to  be 
secured  by  pledges  made  by  individuals  during 
“Victory  Week,”  November  30  to  December  7. 
Each  pledge  must  be  designated  by  the  donor  for 
the  school  or  institution  to  which  it  is  to  be  sent 
after  record  of  it  has  been  made  at  Headquarters. 

Over  and  above  the  regular  apportionments  to 
the  churches,  we  are  to  raise  $1,500,000  in 
pledges  from  individuals  for  endowment  and 
equipment  purposes  for  our  Missouri  schools  and 
philanthropic  institutions.  This  second  $1,500,- 


000  has  not  been  apportioned,  either  to  districts 
or  associations  or  churches. 

We  must  subscribe  at  least  $1,500,000  during 
Victory  Week,  and  this  amount  can  only  be  real¬ 
ized  by  every  person  or  body  of  persons  deciding 
what  their  share  of  this  is  and  working  to  do  his 
part.  Every  Baptist  in  Missouri  must  pledge 
without  thought  or  regard  to  what  anyone  else 
does.  This  is  a  call  for  each  individual  Baptist 
to  take  stock  of  his  earthly  possessions  and  honor 
God  by  sacrificial  giving.  This  call  is  to  be  a 
demonstration  of  our  ability  to  do  the  heroic. 

November  30  to  December  7,  “Victory  Week,” 
means  life  or  death  to  our  Missouri  Baptist 
schools  and  philanthropic  institutions.  Their 
whole  future  is  to  be  determined  by  the  manner 
in  which  Missouri  Baptists  respond  to  this  appeal. 
The  only  limit  that  should  mark  our  individual 
pledging  should  be  the  extent  of  our  ability. 
Every  school  and  every  institution  in  the  State 
should  receive  due  consideration  and  adequate 
support.  The  church  that  fails  to  cooperate  in 
this  great  Campaign  must  answer  to  Almighty  God 
and  the  denomination  for  its  indifference  or  wil¬ 
ful  neglect. 


99 


STATE  MISSION  BOARD  OF  NEW  MEXICO 

J.  W.  Bruner,  Corresponding  Secretary,  Albuquerque,  N.  M. 


We  are  allowing  our¬ 
selves  $60,000  out  of 
the  $250,000  we  are 
to  raise  in  the  75 
Million  Campaign  to 
take  care  of  our  State 
Mission  needs  for 
five  years.  This  is 
only  an  average  of 
$12,000  per  year  to 
be  raised  in  our  State 
and  we  are  now  col¬ 
lecting  from  the 
churches,  in  addition 
to  what  we  are  given  by  the  Home  Board, 
$10,000  per  year.  We  have  grown  in  the  last 
five  years  from  $3,000  to  $10,000.  At  the  same 
rate  of  growth  we  would  be  collecting  in  five 
years  from  now  over  $33,000  per  year  in  our 
own  State  for  State  Missions.  The  unmet  needs 
of  our  State  are  appalling  and  the  appeals  from 
missionaries  and  pastors  are  heartrending.  We 
must  have  more  preachers  and  pav  the  ones  we 
have  better,  if  we  ever  save  for  Christ  and  the 
Truth  the  people  of  New  Mexico.  We  will  spend 


in  our  own  State  just  twice  the  amount  we  are 
asked  to  raise.  This  should  be  enough  to  cause 
every  Baptist  in  the  State  to  join  with  us  in  say¬ 
ing,  “We  must  raise  it.” 

The  question  has  been  asked,  “What  will  be¬ 
come  of  our  poorly  paid  pastors  in  New  Mexico?” 
or  “What  will  be  the  effect  on  the  churches  if  we 
give  our  efforts  so  completely  to  the  raising  of 
$250,000?”  The  answer  is  simple  and  positive — - 
pastors  will  be  better  cared  for,  their  salaries  will 
be  enlarged  and  many  churches  will  be  self-sup¬ 
porting.  “A  rising  tide  lifts  all  ships.”  It  is 
easier  to  get  money  today  than  it  has  ever  been  in 
all  the  history  of  our  church  life.  This  task  will 
challenge  our  courage  and  will  link  us  up  with 
God.  It  is  already  deepening  the  spiritual  life  of 
our  people  and  kindling  the  fires  of  evangelism. 
We  are  having  conversions  in  most  all  our  asso- 
ciational  meetings,  and  young  people  are  surren¬ 
dering  their  lives  for  special  service.  It  will  rid 
us  of  the  little  petty  things  and  purify  our  think¬ 
ing.  We  will  come  out  of  this  campaign  with  our 
minds  and  hearts  fixed  on  the  salvation  of  the  lost, 
and  the  putting  forward  of  Christ’s  Kingdom. 


STATE  MISSION  BOARD  OF  NORTH  CAROLINA 

Walter  N.  Johnson,  Secretary,  Raleicii,  N.  C. 


One-half  the  people 
in  North  Carolina  are 
still  unevangelized. 
Fifteen  hundred  of 
our  Baptist  churches 
are  backward  and 
need  enlistment  and 
training.  Two-thirds 
of  our  churches  are 
inadequately  housed 
and  have  no  equip¬ 
ment  for  teaching  the 
Word.  The  boundless 
water-power  of  our 
State  is  bringing  hundreds  of  manufacturing  com¬ 
munities  of  unchurched  people.  Our  State  edu¬ 
cational  centers  are  neglected,  with  inadequate 
buildings,  and  poorly  paid  pastors.  Our  orphan¬ 
age  has  nearly  six  hundred  children,  with  one 
thousand  others  knocking  at  the  door.  We  have 
not  even  begun  hospital  work  among  a  popula¬ 
tion  of  two  millions  and  a  half.  Our  Baptist 
schools  and  colleges  are  crowded  with  students 
and  need  three  millions  of  dollars  at  once  for 
support,  equipment  and  enlargement.  We  could 


use  six  millions  of  dollars  economically  in  this 
State  in  the  next  five  years. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Missionaries’  Salaries  $  50,000 

Educational  Centers  7,500 

Industrial  Centers  5.000 

Enlistment  and  Evangelism  10,000 

Colportage  and  Publicity  10,000 

Training  Our  People  20,000 

Church  Buildings  20,000 

Expenses  of  All  Work  30,833 

Expense  of  Campaign  8,000 


Total  Per  Year  $161,333 

Total  for  Five  Years  $806,666 


Our  State  Mission  work  is  undergoing  a  distinct 
change  in  character.  It  has  been  our  conception 
that  State  Missions  was  almost  entirely  a  question 
of  evangelizing  the  people  of  the  State.  There  is 
need  that  we  do  more  evangelistic  work  than  ever, 
but  now  we  confront  the  necessity  of  developing 
the  churches  that  have  been  brought  into  existence 
by  our  evangelistic  efforts.  Hence,  an  increase  of 
emphasis  is  falling  upon  church  building  evan¬ 
gelistic  work— adjustment  in  industrial  and  edu¬ 
cational  centers. 


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STATE  MISSION  BOARD  OE  OKLAHOMA 

F.  M.  McConnell,  Secretary,  Oklahoma  City,  Okla. 


Baptist  work  in  Okla¬ 
homa  began  Septem¬ 
ber  10,  1832,  when 
Rev.  Isaac  McCoy 
came  on  horseback  to 
the  Indian  Territory, 
and  after  a  revival  or¬ 
ganized  the  Ebenezer 
Church,  which  was 
composed  of  John  Da¬ 
vis  and  wife,  a  half- 
breed  Indian  and 
three  Negro  slaves. 
This  was  a  small  be¬ 
ginning,  but  the  seed  sown  there  has  grown  until 
now  we  have  more  than  eleven  hundred  churches, 
with  a  membership  of  at  least  a  hundred  thou¬ 
sand.  Evangelistic  efforts  in  the  past  have 
brought  large  returns.  I  doubt  if  there  is  a  more 
fruitful  field  to  be  found  anywhere  on  the  Ameri¬ 
can  continent  in  which  to  sow  Gospel  seeds  than 
Oklahoma. 

The  Oklahoma  State  Mission  Board  is  under¬ 
taking  a  larger  work  this  year  than  ever  before. 
There  are  more  than  two  hundred  missionaries. 


Weak  churches  are  assisted;  a  large  amount  of 
evangelistic  work  is  done;  work  is  done  among 
the  foreigners,  Indians  and  an  evangelist  to  the 
coal  miners  is  supported.  As  soon  as  an  oil  field 
is  opened  we  put  a  worker  there.  Our  mission¬ 
aries  baptized  more  people  this  year  in  nine 
months  than  during  all  last  year.  More  than 
two  hundred  new  Sunday  schools  were  organized. 
The  value  of  church  lots  secured,  meeting  houses 
built  and  pastors’  homes  erected  on  mission  fields 
is  double  the  entire  amount  raised  for  State  Mis¬ 
sions.  This  is  the  banner  State  Mission  year  in 
Oklahoma. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 

The  entire  amount  in  the  five-year  program  for  State 
Missions — $416,666 — will  be  spent  in  assisting 
associations,  helping  weak  churches,  employing 
general  missionaries,  enlistment  men,  missionaries 
among  the  miners,  Indians  and  in  Good  Will  Cen¬ 
ter  work.  We  cannot  give  amounts  to  be  spent  in 
each  department. 


STATE  MISSION  BOARD  OF  SOUTH  CAROLINA 

W.  T.  Derieux,  Secretary,  Columbia,  S.  C. 


The  glory  of  our 
State  Mission  work  is 
that  it  ministers  noth¬ 
ing  less  than  churches 
themselves  to  com¬ 
munities.  It  is  pre¬ 
paring  for  churches 
in  mission  fields  by 
foundation  work;  it 
organizes  churches 
where  they  are  need¬ 
ed  ;  it  sustains  them 
where  they  are  weak; 
it  assists  them  with 
lady  workers  where  their  tasks  are  too  large  for 
them;  it  develops  churches  along  the  lines  of 
better  Sunday  school  work;  it  groups  churches 
into  fields  for  better  pastoral  attention;  it 
is  bringing  to  the  churches  of  large  sections  of 
the  State  better  methods  and  larger  ideals  of 
service  in  Christ’s  Kingdom.  In  short,  our  State 
Mission  cause  sows  and  cultivates  churches.  It 
plants  and  nurtures  our  little  Baptist  democracies 
all  over  South  Carolina,  and  they,  in  turn,  minis¬ 
ter  the  gospel  to  the  people  with  its  saving  grace, 


guiding  light,  sustaining  strength,  reclaiming 
love  and  innumerable  and  infinite  blessings.  If 
this  work  is  not  great,  then  there  is  nothing  great 
and  good  in  the  world. 

This  Board  is  needed  more  today  in  our  State 
than  ever  before.  South  Carolina  is  growing. 
Great  business  and  industrial  cities  are  forming. 
Our  population  is  shifting  to  new  centers.  Noth¬ 
ing  can  meet  the  demands  of  the  opening  day, 
with  its  enlarged  and  changing  problems,  but 
churches  of  Christ,  churches  that  are  indwelt  by 
his  Spirit  and  filled  with  the  sense  of  his  respon¬ 
sibilities.  In  short,  the  future  calls  most  loudly 
for  that  very  service  which  for  nearly  a  half 
century  has  been  the  glory  of  our  State  Mission 
Board. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Sunday  School,  B.  Y.  P.  U.  $  50,000 

Church  Building  100,000 

Enlistment  25,000 

Evangelism  50,000 

General  Missionary  Work  300,000 


Total  SS?1-  000 


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STATE  MISSION  BOARD  OF  TENNESSEE 

J.  W.  Gillon,  Secretary,  Nashville,  Tenn. 


In  Tennessee  State 
Mission  activities  fol¬ 
low  the  lines  of  Ten¬ 
nessee’s  needs.  There 
are  two  great  needs  in 
Tennessee. 

1.  That  the  one 
million  lost  souls 
who  have  reached  the 
years  of  accountabil¬ 
ity  should  be  evange¬ 
lized.  To  meet  this 
need  three  things  are 
being  done  by  our 
State  Mission  organization:  (1)  A  large  number 
of  missionary  pastors  are  being  supported  each 
year,  as  pastors  of  definite  churches  or  ministers 
to  definite  preaching  stations.  (2)  A  number  of 
associational  missionaries  are  employed.  There  is 
pressing  demand  that  this  number  be  greatly 
increased  for  the  next  five  years.  If  we  get  Ten¬ 
nessee’s  allotment  in  money  we  must  enlist  Ten¬ 
nessee  church  members  as  we  never  have  before 
and  the  associational  missionary  will  be  a  mighty 
factor  in  this  enlistment.  (3)  Evangelistic  tracts 


are  used  extensively.  Many  of  these  are  printed 
and  sent  out  from  the  mission  rooms,  while  many 
others  are  secured  from  the  Sunday  School  Board 
tract  department. 

2.  Next  in  importance  is  the  work  of  enlisting 
the  unenlisted.  To  meet  this  need  the  State  Mis¬ 
sion  organization  employs  the  well-known  and 
effective  agencies  of  the  Woman’s  Missionary 
Union,  the  Sunday  School  and  B.  Y.  P.  U.  field 
workers,  colporters,  tracts  and  the  Secretary  of  its 
Executive  Board. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Pastor  Missionaries 

$31,250 

Association  Missionaries 

32,400 

W.  M.  U.  Workers 

3,400 

Sunday  School  Workers 

5,000 

Ten  Special  S.  S.  Workers 

1.000 

One  B.  Y.  P.  U.  Worker 

2,400 

Ten  Special  B.  Y.  P.  U.  Workers 

1.000 

Office  Expenses 

5,000 

General  Secretary 

4.600 

Assistant 

3,600 

Printing,  etc. 

2,000 

Total  Each  Year 

191,650 

Total  in  Five  Years 

$458,250 

STATE  MISSION  BOARD  OF  TEXAS 

F.  S.  Groner,  Secretary,  Dallas,  Texas. 


The  need  of  State 
Mission  work  is  most 
insistent  and  urgent. 
There  are  a  large 
number  of  small  vil¬ 
lages  and  a  still  larg¬ 
er  number  of  rural 
communities  which 
have  no  Baptist 
preaching.  These 
places  are  now  open 
to  the  Baptists  as 
never  before.  Con 
ditions  brought  about 
by  good  Providence  have  made  it  so.  This  is  the 
day  of  Baptist  opportunity.  And  by  these  open 
doors  and  appeals  for  the  missionary,  God  is  call¬ 
ing  upon  us  to  enter  these  fields  with  the  Gospel 
and  win  them  for  Christ.  God  has  given  us  bound¬ 
less  wealth,  which,  if  used  for  His  glory,  is  a  bless¬ 
ing,  but  a  peril  if  not  so  used.  The  big  ques¬ 
tion  for  us  is  will  we  heed  these  calls  or  will  we 
close  our  ears  to  them  and  let  the  opportunity 
pass  to  other  people.  The  whole  matter  depends 
UDon  our  answer.  We,  as  Baptists,  must  carry  the 


Gospel  of  life  and  hope  into  these  vast  oil  camps 
and  call  the  people  to  the  things  of  God.  These 
must  be  sobered  and  saved  with  their  newly  made 
riches  to  the  cause  of  Christ  and  both  utilized  in 
building  up  the  Kingdom  of  Christ  all  over  the 
world. 

And  while  there  are  in  Texas  about  four  hun¬ 
dred  thousand  Baptists,  we  must  remember  that 
Texas  is  an  Empire  within  itself,  with  a  territory 
larger  than  Germany  and  capable  of  supporting 
seventy-five  million  people.  People  from  the 
ends  of  the  earth  are  coming  into  Texas  in  ever- 
increasing  numbers.  All  these  things  put  togeth¬ 
er  make  Texas  the  greatest  mission  field  in  the 
South. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 

The  State  Mission  money  in  Texas  is  used  to  supple¬ 
ment  the  salaries  of  the  pastors  in  such  churches 
as  are  unable  to  support  a  pastor  without  such 
help;  to  assist  in  supporting  associational  mission¬ 
aries;  to  pay  the  salaries  of  some  twelve  or  fourteen 
general  evangelists;  to  assist  in  paying  salaries  for 
our  Sunday  School  and  B.  Y.  P.  U.  Secretaries 
and  their  helpers,  and.  in  some  instances,  contrib¬ 
uting  toward  the  erection  of  meeting  houses.  We 
also  do  quite  a  large  work  among  the  Negroes, 
Mexican  and  other  foreigners  in  the  State. 


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STATE  MISSION  BOARD  OF  VIRGINIA 

William  Ellyson,  Secretary,  Richmond,  Va. 


The  Slate  M  i  s  s  i  o  n 
Board  is  looking  for¬ 
ward  to  a  new  era  in 
its  work  when  our 
people  shall  have  met 
their  apportionment 
of  $7,000,000.  It  has 
frequently  been  im¬ 
possible  for  the 
Board  to  enter  new 
fields  or  to  expand 
work  already  begun 
because  of  a  lack  of 
funds.  After  Vic¬ 
tory  Week  the  vision  which  the  Board  has 
long  entertained  for  keeping  strong  preachers  on 
strategic  fields  and  developing  strong  bases  of 
supply  for  missionary  work  abroad  promises  to 
be  realized.  The  Baptists  of  Virginia  have  never 
faced  such  opportunities  for  constructive  mission¬ 
ary  work  as  those  which  lie  before  them  now. 
Our  two  mission  schools,  already  most  fruitful, 
notwithstanding  inadequate  equipment  and  teach¬ 
ing  forces,  are  to  be  cared  for  in  a  large  way. 
The  self-sacrificing  spirit  of  our  principals  and 


teachers  must  be  met  by  adequate  support.  The 
work  of  our  Sunday  School  Department  in  the 
interest  of  rural  churches,  as  well  as  churches  in 
the  cities  and  towns  of  the  State,  must  be  ma¬ 
terially  increased  to  take  care  of  the  growing  de 
mand  for  institutes  and  training  schools  in  which 
the  forces  may  be  instructed  in  modern  methods. 
Everywhere  there  is  evidence  of  need  for  high 
grade  colportage  work. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Missionary  and  Evangelistic  Work 

$  80,000 

Mission  Schools 

25,000 

Administration 

10,000 

Sunday  School,  Colportage  and  B.  Y.  P. 

U. 

Work 

40,000 

Work  in  Cities  of  the  State 

50.00C 

Total  Per  Year 

$205,000 

Total  for  Five  Years 

$1,025,000 

DISTRICT  OF  COLUMBIA 


The  portion  of  the  Baptist  75  Million  Cam¬ 
paign  allotted  to  the  District  of  Columbia  will 
be  spent  for  the  following  objects: 

NATIONAL  BAPTIST  MEMORIAL 
The  $350,000  named  for  this  will  be  spent  on 
a  church  in  front  of  the  magnificent  Sunday 
school  apartment  of  the  present  Immanuel 
Church.  The  name  of  the  church  will  be  changed 
accordingly  and  a  statue  of  Roger  Williams 
erected  in  front  of  it.  It  is  in  the  best  possible 
location,  on  Sixteenth  Street  and  Columbia  Road, 
about  a  mile  from  the  front  of  the  White  House. 

BAPTIST  CHILDREN’S  HOME 
A  part  will  be  used  to  enlarge  and  sustain  our 
present  home  for  children. 

BAPTIST  HOME  FOR  THE  AGED 
A  part  will  be  used  to  sustain  our  Baptist 
Home  for  the  Aged.  Also  to  repair  and  en¬ 
large  it. 

MISSION  WORK  IN  WASHINGTON  AND 
VICINITY 

A  large  part  should  be  used  to  house  and  help 
our  four  Mission  Churches  in  the  District  of 
Columbia,  one  of  which  is  the  most  promising 


Italian-speaking  church  in  this  or  any  other 
country.  In  addition,  several  weak  but  self-sus¬ 
taining  churches  should  be  helped  to  erect  better 
meeting  houses.  Several  other  Sunday  schools 
and  churches  should  be  organized  and  helped  in 
needy  and  promising  suburbs  of  the  nation’s  capi¬ 
tal. 

The  fact  that  the  national  life  is  focused  in 
Washington,  as  it  is  in  no  other  city  in  America, 
constitutes  a  very  compelling  reason  why  Bap¬ 
tists  should  maintain  a  vigorous  life  in  this 
strategic  city.  Not  only  is  the  transient  popula¬ 
tion  of  Washington  very  great,  but  there  is  there 
a  permanent  body  of  people  of  vast  proportions 
Washington  is  a  great  city,  as  such,  and  has  in  it 
all  the  problems  of  city  mission  work,  empha¬ 
sized  in  a  peculiar  way  by  its  situation  as  the 
capital  of  the  nation.  Because  Washington  is  at 
the  crossroads  of  our  national  life,  the  Baptist 
cause  should  be  reinforced  to  the  extent  that  would 
make  it  fairly  representative  of  the  place  Baptist; 
occupy  in  the  country  as  a  whole. 


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A  Minister  of  the  Gospel  for  Forty  Years 


BOARD  OF  MINISTERIAL  RELIEF  AND  ANNUITIES 


HERE  are  23,419  Baptist  churches  in 
the  Southern  State*.  These  churches 
report  102,158  baptisms.  With  the 
exception  of  a  few  men  residing*  in 
the  large  cities,  the  average  salary 
of  ministers  is  about  $1.09  a  day,  or  $400  per 
year.  The  average  salary  of  a  street  car  man  is 
about  $1,100. 

The  salaries  of  our  foreign  missionaries  are 
so  meagre  that  there  is  no  laying  aside  for  a 
“rainy  day”  for  these  men  and  women. 

It  was  the  seriousness  of  this  situation  which 
occasioned  the  organization  of  the  Relief  and 
Annuity  Board  in  1918.  The  Board  began  its 
work  one  year  ago,  and  is  now  making  an  appeal 
for  Five  Million  Dollars  ($5,000,000.00)  with 
which  to  endow  and  carry  on  its  work.  It  is 
aiding  at  present  285  needy  ministers  and  widows. 
The  grants  average  according  to  their  needs,  from 
$75.00  to  $300.00  per  year.  This  does  not  in¬ 
clude  the  beneficiaries  of  the  State  Boards  which 
have  not  as  yet  transferred  their  work  to  us. 

There  are  at  least  one  thousand  ministers  in 
our  fellowship  today  who  are  almost  in  dire 
want.  Through  illness  or  misfortune  they  have 
been  incapacitated  and  are  not  able  to  provide 
for  the  necessities  of  life.  Many  ministers  have 
died  having  been  unable  to  make  any  adequate 
provision  for  the  care  of  their  family.  Many  of 
the  cases  are  most  pitiful. 

The  Baptists  of  the  South  must  make  provision 
for  all  their  ministers  when  retired  by  disability 
or  old  age,  and  who  are  without  modest  income, 
not  as  a  matter  of  charity,  but  as  a  matter  of 
supreme  obligation. 


The  Relief  and  Annuity  Board  has  a  plan 
whereby  the  minister,  by  small  annual  payments, 
may  help  create  for  himself  a  retiring  fund.  This 
will  require  a  permanent  fund  of  several  mil¬ 
lions.  Other  denominations  have  large  funds  for 
the  care  of  their  ministers.  The  Presbyterian 
fund  is  $10,000,000;  the  Episcopal.  $8,500,000; 
the  Methodist,  $20,000,000,  and  yet  Baptists  have 
a  larger  number  of  ministers  than  any  one  of 
these  other  denominations.  Nearly  all  of  these 
funds  have  been  secured  within  the  last  five  years. 

When  the  day’s  work  of  a  minister  is  over 
he  should  not  suffer  want  for  the  necessities  of 
life.  If  prematurely  called  home,  his  widow  and 
children  should  not  be  cast  out  on  the  charity  of 
the  denomination  he  so  self-denyinglv  served. 
All  past  measures  for  the  relief  of  the  veteran 
pastor  are  commonly  regarded  and  spoken  of 
as  a  charity.  This  may  have  been  due  to  the  fact 
that  the  relief  provided  was  on  so  meagre  a  scale. 
So  far  there  has  never  been  any  kind  of  a  relief 
program,  except  for  the  aged  minister.  That  day 
is  over.  The  young  and  the  middle  aged  are 
included  in  the  new  Convention  program.  The 
provisions  of  the  Relief  and  Annuity  Board  will 
soon  cease  to  be  thought  of  as  charity.  Its  gifts 
will  be  regarded  as  a  moral  obligation  on  the 
part  of  the  churches  to  lay  up  deferred  wages  for 
the  men,  who  by  their  consecration  vows  volun¬ 
tarily  closed  the  avenues  by  which  men  ordinarily 
achieve  a  competency. 

Our  program  is  to  increase  the  permanent  fund 
of  the  Board,  for  relief  and  annuity  purpose*,  to 
$5,000,000  within  the  next  seven  years. 


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Grounds  and  Dining  Room,  Buckner  Orphans*  Home,  Dallas,  Texas 


ORPHANAGES 


SUMMARY  OF  NEEDS 

Land  $  77,000 

Buildings  1,083,883 

Equipment  91,000 

Current  Support  2,349,390 

Miscellaneous  24,692 

Apportionments  in  Maryland,  District  of  Columbia,  Kentucky, 

Missouri,  Oklahoma,  Not  Itemized  590,232 


Grand  Total  $  4,216,197 


DESCRIPTION  OF  NEEDS 


HE  high  ground  taken  in  the  follow¬ 
ing  words  of  Dr,  A.  T.  Jamison, 
Superintendent  of  the  Connie  Max¬ 
well  Orphanage,  Greenwood,  S.  C., 
places  the  appeal  of  the  orphan 
where  it  ought  to  be: 

“Connie  Maxwell  Orphanage  has  never  in  its 
history  sent  out  what  might  be  called  a  starvation 
appeal.  Our  people  have  never  been  asked  to 
contribute  to  the  support  of  the  starving  orphans. 
We  have  sometimes  run  out  of  money,  but  the 
children  have  never  known  it  and  no  officer  on 
the  payroll  has  ever  known  there  was  no  money 
in  the  treasury.  When  there  was  none  with  which 
to  pay  salaries,  it  was  secured  from  the  bank  and 
checks  were  written.  Appeals  for  the  institution 
have  always  rested  on  the  high  ground  that  it  was 


a  great  denominational  enterprise,  worthy  of 
large  gifts  and  of  the  best  support  of  our  people. 
We  have  not  tried  to  relate  pitiful  stories  to  stir 
the  people  and  cause  the  tears  to  flow  in  order 
that  the  people  might  be  induced  to  give.  Nor 
has  the  institution  been  run  in  ‘cheap  John’  style. 
We  have,  with  great  emphasis,  repudiated  the  old 
time  idea  that  ‘any  old  thing  will  do  for  a  poor 
little  orphan.’  On  the  other  hand,  the  idea  has 
been  impressed  that  the  orphans  are  entitled  to 
the  fundamentals  of  an  education,  that  they 
should  be  kindly  and  considerately  regarded,  that 
love  and  kindness  should  be  poured  into  their 
young  lives,  that  they  should  be  mothered  and 
not  officered,  and  that  an  orphan  child  is  as  good 
as  any  child.”  The  orphan  children  are  the  chil¬ 
dren  of  us  all.  We  will  provide  for  our  children. 


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A«pust  Orphans’  Home,  Hapeville,  Ga. 


ALABAMA  BAPTIST  ORPHANAGE 

EVERGREEN,  ALABAMA 

J.  W.  Stewart,  Superintendent 

Our  orphanage  started  in  a  little  rented  house 
with  three  small  children  and  has  always  suffered 
for  lack  of  adequate  equipment.  Its  needs  are 
more  pressing  since  fire  has  destroyed  its  two 
best  buildings.  While  the  cost  of  living  has 
steadily  increased,  the  offerings  of  its  friends 
have  declined.  Think  of  it,  these  orphanage  chil¬ 
dren  committed  to  the  Baptists  of  Alabama  must 
have  gone  hungry  often  and  ill-clad  but  for  the 
management  going  in  debt  to  secure  food  for 
them.  Don’t  underestimate  our  needs.  Don't  for¬ 


get  158  needy  children  are  looking  to  you  as 
their  big  brothers  from  whom  they  justly  expect 
help. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Ten  Acres  of  Land  $  10,000 

Administration  Building  50,000 

Eight  Cottage  Homes  ($12,000  each)  96,000 

Printing  Plant  500 

Kitchen  Equipment  500 

Laundry  Improvement  2,000 

Residence  for  Superintendent  10,000 

Equipment  of  Cottages  5,000 

Equipment  of  Infirmary  2,000 

Silo  1.000 

Current  Support  Per  Year,  $30,000  150,000 

Sundries  10,000 


Total  $337,000 


School  Building,  Mississippi  Baptist  Orphanage,  Jackson,  Mias. 
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Babies*  Building,  Florida  Baptist  Orphanage,  Arcadia,  Fla. 


MONTICELLO  BAPTIST  ORPHANS’ 
HOME 

MONTICELLO,  ARKANSAS 

W.  F.  Dorris,  Superintendent 

In  missions  we  save  the  soul;  in  education  we 
train  the  mind  and  soul  of  the  saved;  in  hospital 
work  we  “heal  the  sick”  and  broken  body;  in  pro¬ 
viding  for  our  aged  ministry,  we  supply  their 
physical  wants;  but  in  caring  for  the  fatherless 
we  save  their  lives,  physical,  mental  and  moral. 
It  was  this  same  spirit  that  cares  for  the  helpless 
child  that  prompted  Pharaoh’s  daughter  to  hear 
the  appealing  cry  of  the  helpless  child  Moses  and 
rescue  him,  and  become  his  mother  by  adopting 


him  as  her  very  own,  and  give  him  an  education 
ard  training  that  fitted  him  for  the  mighty  task 
God  had  allotted  to  him.  As  the  cry  of  Moses  ap¬ 
pealed  to  this  pagan  woman,  may  the  crv  of  the 
thousands  of  orphans  appeal  to  us  in  such  a 
way  that  we  will  rescue  them  and  save  them  to 
church  and  state. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Current  Expenses  (five  years) 

$  75.000 

One  Large  Building  or  Three  Cottages 

50.000 

House  for  Superintendent 

7.500 

School  Building 

5.000 

Hospital  and  Detention  Building 

5.000 

House  Furnishings 

4.000 

Barn  and  Dairy  Buildings 

3.500 

Total 

$150  000 

Miles  Durham  Nursery  Children,  Thomasrille  Baptist  Orphanage,  Thomasville,  N.  C. 

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Louisiana  Baptist  Orphanage,  Lake  Charles,  La. 


FLORIDA  BAPTIST  ORPHANAGE 

ARCADIA,  FLORIDA 

J.  E.  Trice,  Superintendent 

Our  appeal  for  help  is  based  upon  the  policy 
inaugurated  by  the  Board  of  Trustees,  which  com¬ 
prehends  a  larger  service  to  our  children  than 
merely  physical  support.  We  provide  the  best 
home  possible  with  as  nearly  as  possible  real 
home  environments  and  influences,  but  only  as 
a  basis  for  the  larger  work  we  are  endeavoring 
to  do.  We  make  Christianity  fundamental.  We 
provide  such  educational  facilities  as  we  need  to 
develop  the  native  talent  of  the  child  and  pre¬ 
pare  him  for  self-support;  we  keep  before  us  the 
children’s  need  of  vocational  training  which  will 
give  them  independence  and  develop  individuality. 
The  useful  Christian  citizen  is  the  objective  of 
our  work. 

IIOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 

Current  Support  $100,000 

GEORGIA  BAPTIST  ORPHANS’ 
HOME 

HAPEVILLE,  GEORGIA 
T.  S.  Scoggins,  General  Manager 

We  need  not  plan  anything  without  also  train¬ 
ing  the  children  to  finish  and  carry  on  the  work. 
Our  schools,  our  churches,  our  industries,  our 
morals,  our  government  and  the  successful  carry¬ 
ing  out  of  everything  that  we  undertake  depend 
upon  our  attention  to  and  how  we  train  the  chil¬ 
dren  of  the  present.  The  lad  of  1914  was  called 
upon  in  1918  to  defend  the  world  against  the  Ger¬ 
man  Empire.  The  orphanage  is  not  a  charitable 
institution  in  the  true  sense  of  the  word,  and  I 
so  teach  the  children  here.  They  come  nearer 


earning  what  they  get  than  do  children  in  private 
homes.  They  work  harder  that  they  may  ob¬ 
tain  an  opportunity,  and  since  God  has  given 
every  child  a  right  to  this  opportunity,  it  is  un¬ 
fair  to  rate  them  as  objects  of  charity.  It  is  our 
sacred  duty  to  see  that  the  orphan  child  gets  the 
opportunity  that  God  intends  for  every  child. 
Therefore,  when  we  assist  an  orphan  we  are  only 
giving  him  what  we  owe  to  him. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 

Twenty-five  Acres  of  Land  $  10,000 

Buildings  120,000 

(School  Building,  Three  Cottages,  Gen¬ 
eral  Manager’s  Home) 

Current  Support  350,000 

Total  $480,000 

LOUISIANA  BAPTIST  ORPHANAGE 

LAKE  CHARLES,  LOUISIANA 
F.  C.  Flowers,  Superintendent 

During  sixteen  years  of  our  history,  as  the 
Louisiana  Baptist  Orphanage,  we  have  been 
pressed  for  room  and  equipment.  Usually  we 
have  had  from  fifty  to  seventy-five  children,  but 
at  present  appeals  to  us  to  take  homeless,  help¬ 
less  children  are  overwhelming.  Almost  daily 
the  call  comes  to  us  to  admit  some  one.  Over 
one  hundred  crowd  now  our  inadequate  building. 
We  are  forced  to  deny  admittance  to  another 
child.  We  need  equipment  for  four  times  as  many 
children  as  we  now  have. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


640  Acres  of  Land  $  20,000 

Cottages  and  School  Buildings  125,000 

Equipment  30,000 

Current  Support  100,000 


Total  $275,000 


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Babies*  Building,  Tennessee  Baptist  Orphanage,  Nashville,  Tenn. 


ILLINOIS  ORPHANS’  HOME 

CARMI,  ILLINOIS 

G.  W.  Danbury,  Superintendent 

The  Orphans’  Home  of  the  Illinois  Baptist 
State  Association  proposes  not  only  to  care  for 
the  physical  wants  of  orphan  children,  but  to 
win  them  to  Christ  and  train  them  for  Christian 
service.  In  the  bounds  of  the  State  Association 
we  have  many  orphans  and  half-orphans  who 
if  not  cared  for  by  an  institution  like  the  one 
we  have  planned  will  grow  up  to  be  bad  citizens 
and  many  of  them  criminals,  thus  becoming  a  lia¬ 
bility  instead  of  an  asset  to  our  great  common¬ 
wealth. 

Ours  is  to  be  a  home  and  not  a  home-finding 
institution.  We  now  have  in  the  home  four  full 
families  of  children  that  shall  not  be  separated, 
but  shall  grow  up  together  in  the  home  as  a 
family  and  the  four  families  will  be  a  part  of 
the  great  family  in  the  home.  We  want  to  give 
them  home-life  and  home-training  that  they  may 
grow  up  to  be  good  men  and  women. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Debt  on  Land  $  7,000 

Administration  Building  10.000 

Boys’  Dormitory  10.000 

Equipment  5,000 

Current  Support  75,000 


Total  Apportionment  |107,000 


MISSISSIPPI  BAPTIST  ORPHANAGE 

JACKSON,  MISSISSIPPI 

J.  B.  Carter,  Superintendent 

For  twenty-two  years  the  Mississippi  Baptist 
Orphanage  has  been  doing  something  towards  the 
care  of  helpless  orphan  children.  During  this 
time  we  have  had  in  the  home  more  than  eight 


hundred  children  for  a  longer  or  shorter  time. 
The  Mississippi  Baptist  people  have  done  much 
to  provide  for  the  many  who  have  appealed  to 
them,  but  have  never  contributed  enough  to  pro¬ 
vide  for  the  ever-increasing  number.  We  need 
increased  facilities  for  the  care  and  training  of 
the  hundreds  of  children  who  must  be  provided 
for  or  grow  up  in  ignorance  and  crime. 

We  are  hoping  that  in  this  75  Million  Cam¬ 
paign  the  orphanage  management  may  be  pro¬ 
vided  with  the  means  necessary  to  do  the  best 
work  for  every  needy  orphan  child. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Land  $  20,000 

Equipment  23,000 

Current  Support  85,000 


Total  $125,000 


MISSOURI  BAPTIST  ORPHANS’ 
HOME 

PATTONVILLE,  MISSOURI 
Mrs.  A.  H.  Eilers,  Warwick  Hotel,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

The  home  was  opened  in  1886  in  a  rented 
house,  with  five  motherless  babies.  In  1905  a 
site  was  secured  at  Pattonville,  a  few  miles  out¬ 
side  the  limits  of  the  city  of  St.  Louis.  There 
are  fifteen  acres  of  ground.  There  have  been 
fund,  aside  from  the  Bradford  estate,  yields  about 
erected  a  main  building  and  five  cottages,  with 
ample  room  for  175  children.  The  endowment 
$7,500  a  year,  which  is  half  the  expense.  For 
the  balance  we  rely  confidently  on  birthday 
offerings,  Sunday  school  contributions,  and  on 
help  from  aid  and  missionary  societies  and  on 
annual  offerings  of  cash  and  boxes  from  churches. 
We  are  caring  for  157  children  at  present,  with 
room  for  225. 


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Oklahoma  Baptist  Orphans'  Home,  Oklahoma  City,  Okla. 


OKLAHOMA  BAPTIST  ORPHANS’ 
HOME 

OKLAHOMA  CITY,  OKLAHOMA 

F.  M.  McConnell,  Superintendent 

This  institution  cares  for  the  dependent  and 
thus  assists  society.  It  is  father  and  mother  to 
the  children  who  have  been  deprived  of  their 
parents  by  the  hand  of  death  and  thus  exemplifies 
the  apostle’s  description  of  pure  and  undefiled 
religion.  It  is  an  evangelizing  agency,  as  is 
shown  by  the  fact  that  nearly  everyone  of  the 
inmates  who  has  reached  the  years  of  account¬ 
ability  is  converted  and  a  member  of  the  church. 
It  is  a  good  home,  as  is  proven  by  the  joy  of  all 
those  who  have  gone  out  from  it,  whenever  they 
have  an  opportunity  to  return  and  pay  Father 
and  Mother  Butt  and  the  others  a  visit. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 

Buildings,  Land  and  Current  Support  1155,666 

THOMASVILLE  BAPTIST  ORPHAN¬ 
AGE 

THOMASVILLE,  NORTH  CAROLINA 

M.  L.  Kesler,  Superintendent 

The  Thomasville  Baptist  Orphanage  rests  its 
appeal  for  support  on  these  grounds: 

First,  for  the  sake  of  the  525  dependent  chil¬ 
dren  it  is  educating  and  training  for  service. 
Most  of  those  in  its  care  would  never  otherwise 
receive  this,  and  their  lives  would  be  worse  than 
lost,  becoming  liabilities  and  a  menace  to  so¬ 
ciety.  We  stand  at  the  end  of  the  human  mo¬ 
raine  and  catch  this  precious  drift,  saving  it  to 
the  advancement  of  the  human  race  and  to  the 


glory  of  God.  A  statement  of  the  need  and  the 
work  being  done  is  the  most  effective  appeal. 

Again,  for  the  sake  of  the  churches  themselves 
we  make  our  appeal.  In  North  Carolina  it  was 
the  first  effort  at  systematic  giving,  and  the  en¬ 
tering  wedge  to  a  larger  liberality  every  way 
It  comes  back  in  enlarged  blessing  upon  tbe 
churches. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 
At  Thomasville: 

Kitchen  and  Dining  Room  to  Nine  Dor¬ 


mitories  (each,  |5,000)  $  45,000 

Office  Building  10,000 

Dormitory  12,000 

At  Kennedy  Home,  Kinston: 

Dormitory  12,000 

Industrial  Building  8,000 

Equipment  25,000 

Current  Support  500,000 


Total  $612,000 


CONNIE-MAXWELL  ORPHANAGE 

GREENWOOD,  SOUTH  CAROLINA 

A.  T.  Jamison,  Superintendent 

Connie-Maxwell  Orphanage,  located  at  Green¬ 
wood,  S.  C.,  has  been  engaged  in  the  business  of 
teaching  and  rearing  orphan  children  for  twenty- 
eight  years.  Twenty-seven  permanent  buildings 
adorn  the  grounds  of  the  institution.  A  fairly 
good  equipment  has  grown  up,  but  there  is  ur¬ 
gent  need  for  a  girls’  building,  which  should 
probably  be  called  a  domestic  science  building. 
The  boys  have  a  building  which  houses  the  print¬ 
ing  shop,  the  mattress  factory  and  a  large  annex 
for  woodworking  machinery  and  general  repair 
shop.  The  chapel  is  now  just  about  taxed  to 
its  capacity  and  a  new  building  within  a  few 


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Connie  Maxwell  Orphanage,  Greenwood,  S.  C. 


years  will  certainly  be  needed.  The  school  build¬ 
ing  is  now  completely  filled.  With  further 
growth  there  must  be  a  school  building  for  the 
primary  grades.  The  loyalty  of  South  Carolina 
to  her  pet  institution  in  past  years  is  a  full  guar¬ 
antee  that  needs  and  emergencies  will  be  met  in 
the  future  as  in  the  past. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 

Current  Support  $375,000 

Equipment  50,000 

Domestic  Science  Building 
Primary  School  Building 
Chapel 

Total  $425,000 

ORPHANS’  HOME,  NEW  MEXICO 

We  are  allowing  $20,000  to  cover  the  expenses 
of  our  orphans’  home  for  five  years.  This  is 
only  $4,000  per  year.  We  now  have  eighteen 
children  in  the  home,  and  it  has  only  been  opened 
three  months.  There  are  many  others  already 
begging  for  entrance.  It  is  reasonable  to  expect 
an  average  of  fifty  children  per  year  for  the  five 
years.  Where  is  the  financier  who  can  care  for 
fifty  children  on  $4,000  per  year? 

TENNESSEE  BAPTIST  ORPHANS’ 
HOME 

NASHVILLE,  TENNESSEE 

W.  J.  Stewart,  Superintendent 

The  care  and  training  of  fatherless  and  mother¬ 
less  dependent  children  is  the  work  of  our  in¬ 
stitution.  There  is  no  greater  expresson  of  the 
Christ-spirit  than  is  demonstrated  by  helping  the 


orphan  child  to  become  a  valuable  citizen  of  our 
commonwealth,  a  good  servant  of  Jesus  Christ. 
In  order  that  we  may  accomplish  most  in  this 
task,  it  is  imperative  that  we  have  an  Adminis¬ 
tration  Building,  a  hospital,  two  additional  dor¬ 
mitories,  central  heating  plant,  etc.,  at  as  early 
a  date  as  possible.  Serve  our  children  by  mak¬ 
ing  the  75  Million  Dollar  Campaign  a  great  suc¬ 
cess. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Land 

$  10.000 

Administration  Building 

45.000 

Hospital  Building 

15,000 

Well  and  Dairy 

1,500 

Central  Heating  Plant 

15,000 

Laundry  Building 

3.000 

Cannery 

2,000 

Dormitory  for  Large  Boys 

15,000 

Dormitory  for  Girls 

12,000 

Shop 

10,000 

Concrete  Walks 

3,000 

Current  Support 

125,000 

Total 

$256,500 

BUCKNER  ORPHANS’  HOME 

DALLAS,  TEXAS 

H.  F.  Euckner,  Superintendent 

Buckner  Orphans’  Home  was  founded  forty 
years  ago  by  R.  C.  Buckner.  During  these  years 
more  than  twelve  thousand  orphaned  children 
have  found  a  home  at  Buckner  Orphans’  Home. 
They  have  been  fed,  clothed,  educated  and  given 
religious  training.  There  is,  generally,  a  family 
of  more  than  six  hundred. 

In  the  home-going  of  the  father  and  founder 
of  Buckner  Orphans’  Home,  April  9  of  this  year, 
the  Home  sustained  a  loss  that  God  alone  can  re- 


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pair.  He  gathered  together  and  presented  to  Texas 
Baptists,  free  from  all  encumbrance,  property 
roughly  estimated  at  one  million  dollars.  His 
latest  venture  of  faith  was  the  establishing  at 
Goodnight,  Texas,  what  he  was  pleased  to  call 
“The  Panhandle  Department  of  Buckner  Or¬ 
phans’  Home.”  This  department  must  be  rein¬ 
forced.  It  is  young  as  a  department;  the  coun¬ 
try  is  thinly  settled;  but  its  geographic  location 
will  doubtless  enable  it  to  serve  a  large  territory 
embracing  parts  of  several  Western  States.  Along 
with  the  growth  of  other  Texas  Baptist  institu¬ 
tions,  Buckner  Orphans’  Home,  with  its  out¬ 
stretched  arms  of  charity  and  love,  should  enjoy 
a  similar  growth.  The  calls  are  loud  and 
clamant;  its  needs  are  daily  pressing  and  urgent; 
its  buildings  and  equipment  painfully  inadequate. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 

Buildings  and  Equipment  1300,000 

VIRGINIA  BAPTIST  ORPHANAGE 

SALEM,  VIRGINIA 
C.  L.  Corbitt,  Superintendent 

No  department  of  denominational  work  ought 
to  appeal  more  strongly  to  the  Baptists  of  Vir¬ 
ginia  than  that  of  the  orphanage,  as  it  combines 


both  the  missionary  and  educational  features  of 
Christian  benevolence.  Its  sphere  of  activity  is 
with  the  young  and  helpless,  who,  by  the  Provi¬ 
dence  of  God,  have  been  deprived  of  parental 
care;  training  and  educating  them  for  useful 
Christian  citizenship.  Its  work  in  the  past  has 
been  greatly  blessed  of  God,  but  it  has  been 
seriously  handicapped  by  lack  of  sufficient  funds 
for  enlargement  and  equipment.  Instead  of 
about  two  hundred  children  in  training  at  the 
present  time,  it  should  have  more  than  double 
that  number,  but  it  is  now  operating  above  the 
limit  of  its  capacity.  Many  worthy  ones  are 
seeking  admission  who  must  be  denied  for  lack 
of  room,  while  insufficient  equipment  is  interfer¬ 
ing  with  the  high  class  of  work  which  ought  to 
be  done.  May  the  time  soon  come  when  no  child 
will  be  denied  that  training  so  essential  to  proper 
physical,  mental  and  spiritual  development. 


HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 
Maintenance: 

210  Children  in  Present  Dormitories 

Five  Years  $251,680 

210  Children  to  Be  Received  During 

Five-year  Period  142,710 

Two  Dormitories  to  Meet  Average  Growth  29,383 

Other  Average  Enlargement  14,692 


Total  $438,465 


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Main  Building,  Texas  Baptist  Memorial  Sanitarium.  Dallas,  Texas 


HOSPITALS 

SUMMARY  OF  NEEDS 

$  275,000 

3,180,666 
175,000 


$3,630,666 


To  Pay  Off  Indebtedness 
Land,  Buildings,  Equipment 
Current  Support  and  Charity 

Grand  Total 


WHY  BAPTIST  HOSPITALS 


ITHOUT  a  sanitarium,  the  desired 
social  impact  of  the  Baptist  message 
is  impossible.  To  live  up  to  the 
teachings  of  Jesus,  to  be  hisrhly  and 
truly  orthodox,  Baptists  must  of  ne¬ 
cessity  make  provision  for  caring  for  the  sick. 
This  utilitarian  age  demands  that  creeds  be  trans¬ 
lated  into  deeds.  Any  adequate  interpretation 
of  the  imperative  command  of  Jesus,  “Go  thou 
and  do  likewise,”  as  he  applied  the  story  of  the 
Good  Samaritan,  will  put  Baptists  into  sanitarium 
work  on  a  large  scale. 

Jesus  found  the  most  direct  route  to  the  soul 
in  the  healing  of  the  body.  Our  medical  mis¬ 
sionaries  thrill  us  with  stories  to  the  same  effect. 
Why  not  use  this  method  here  in  the  homeland? 

Our  Baptist  hospitals  are  our  organized  op¬ 
portunity,  as  Baptists,  to  heal  the  sick.  They 
offer  us  our  transcendent  opportunity  to  follow 
the  Christ  in  meeting  humanity’s  imperative 


physical  need.  Our  hospitals  are  the  rendezvous 
of  present-day  equipment  for  healing.  In  our 
hospitals  are  to  be  found,  exercising  their  heal¬ 
ing  skill,  the  very  best  and  most  gifted  of  these 
servants  of  God  to  the  suffering.  This  is  why  our 
hospitals  offer  the  most  concentrated  opportunity 
for  Baptists  to  heal  the  sick. 

What  of  patients  too  poor  to  pay  for  hospital 
treatment?  To  provide  for  these,  as  far  as  pos¬ 
sible.  is  the  Baptist  hospital’s  crown  of  glory. 
This  is  done  by  devoting  to  this  end  every  sur¬ 
plus  dollar  of  income  received  by  our  hospitals. 
Our  greatest  physicians  and  surgeons  give  their 
best  skill  freely  to  such  as  these.  Then,  in  addi¬ 
tion,  all  direct  gifts  to  our  charity  funds  enlarge 
our  opportunity  to  provide  for  the  financially 
helpless.  The  charity  exhibit  of  the  Texas  Bap¬ 
tist  Memorial  Sanitarium  in  nine  and  one-half 
years  totals  a  sum  that  nearly  equals  the  entire 
cost  of  the  sanitarium  plant,  or  not  far  from  a 


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Missouri  Baptist  Sanitarium,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 


million  dollars.  Beyond  controversy,  to  help  hos¬ 
pitals  is  to  heal  the  sick. 


That  Southern  Baptists  have  become  aroused 
to  their  responsibility  and  privilege  to  provide 
hospital  advantages  under  Baptist  auspices  is 
shown  by  the  list  of  Baptist  hospitals  herein 
enumerated : 


Missouri  Baptist 
Louis,  Mo. 


Sanitarium, 


Baptist  Hospital,  Muskogee,  Okla. 
(Miss  Ellen  M.  Cheek,  Supt.) 

Baptist  Hospital,  Miami,  Okla. 

(J.  C.  Stalcup,  Supt.) 

Baptist  Hospital,  Cushing,  Okla. 

(Miss  Margaret  Jones,  Supt.) 
Baptist  Memorial  Hospital,  Men 
phis.  Tenn. 

(P.  C.  Wilkes,  Supt.) 

Georgia  Baptist  Hospital,  Atlanta,  G 
(Jas.  M.  Long,  Supt.) 

Baptist  Hospital,  Columbia,  S.  C. 
Oklahoma  City 

(Mrs.  C.  L.  Smith,  Supt.) 
Texas  Baptist  Memorial  Sanitariun 
Dallas 

(J.  B.  Franklin.  Supt.) 


Founded 

Cost 

Beds 

t. 

1890 

) 

$400,000 

300 

1910 

75,000 

70 

1917 

75,000 

83 

1918 

10,000 

15 

i- 

1912 

650,000 

300 

i.  1913 

150.000 

115 

1914 

150.000 

125 

1917 

57,000 

30 

9 

1909 

785.000 

300 

Baptist  Hospital,  Houston,  Texas 
(Robt.  Jolly,  Business  Mgr.) 

1907 

200,000 

100 

Baptist  Hospital,  Alexandria,  La. 

(R.  P.  Mahon,  Supt.) 

1917 

130,000 

125 

Baptist  Hospital,  Jackson,  Miss. 

(H.  M.  King,  Supt.) 

Central  Texas  Baptist  Sanitarium, 

1908 

75,000 

60 

Waco 

(J.  W.  Dawson,  Supt.) 

1918 

200.000 

104 

The  75  Million  Campaign  will  not  only 

pro- 

vide  greatly  increased  facilities 

in  caring  for  the 

sick  in  the  overcrowded  hospitals  we  have  al¬ 
ready,  as  will  be  shown  in  the  following  state¬ 
ments  about  particular  institutions,  but  will  stim¬ 
ulate  the  founding  of  new  hospitals  in  many 
States. 

Virginia  will  use  its  hospital  apportionment 
in  founding  a  Baptist  hospital  within  her  bor¬ 
ders.  North  Carolina  will  raise  $100,000.00 
which  it  will  use  in  stimulating  local  efforts  in 
several  of  its  large  cities  toward  the  founding 
of  hospitals.  Alabama  will  raise  $102,000.00 
and  Arkansas  will  raise  $200,000.00  for  new  hos¬ 
pitals  yet  to  be  located.  Kentucky  will  raise 
$250,000.00  for  its  new  sanitarium  at  Louisville. 
An  additional  sanitarium  for  Texas  will  be  in¬ 
augurated  in  San  Antonio. 

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Georgia  Baptist  Hospital,  Atlanta,  Ga. 


GEORGIA  BAPTIST  HOSPITAL 

ATLANTA,  GEORGIA 
J.  M.  Long,  Superintendent 


With  the  two  hundred  and  twenty-five  thousand 
dollars  we  are  asking  for  out  of  the  seventy-five 
million  we  will  build  a  hospital  a  peer  of  any 
like  institution  in  the  South. 


Hospitals  are  a  great  denominational  asset. 
Here  Baptists  should  learn  from  the  Catholics. 
There  are  today  in  this  country  nine  hundred 
Catholic  hospitals.  The  Catholics  are  caring  for 
hundreds  of  thousands  of  the  sick,  where  Baptists 
are  reaching  but  a  few  thousands  in  this  most 
effective  way  of  preaching  the  Gospel.  If  South¬ 
ern  Baptists  are  to  hold  their  place  in  the  hearts 
and  lives  of  the  people  of  this  country,  as  well 
as  to  command  immense  wealth  of  this  South¬ 
land,  there  must  be  a  larger  place  given  in  our 
denominational  program  to  the  ministry  of  heal¬ 
ing  through  our  Christian  hospitals. 


HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Building  (number  of  beds,  250)  $125,000 

Equipment  50.000 

Current  Support  45.000 

Charity  5,000 


Total  $225,000 


OKLAHOMA  STATE  BAPTIST 
HOSPITAL 

OKLAHOMA  CITY,  OKLAHOMA 


Mrs.  Elizabeth  T.  Smith,  Superintendent 


HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 

Charity  or  Current  Support  $  75.000 

Land  and  Buildings  325,000 

Total  $400,000 

LOUISIANA  BAPTIST  HOSPITAL 

ALEXANDRIA,  LOUISIANA 

R.  P.  Mahon,  Superintendent 

We  are  at  the  geographical  center  of  the  State 
and  also  at  a  great  railroad  center.  We  have  a 
great  territory  and  a  great  constituency.  There 
is  no  other  hospital  in  a  fine  and  growing  city 
of  twenty  thousand.  What  we  have  is  as  good 
as  the  best,  but  our  demands  call  for  a  two  hun¬ 
dred  bed  hospital  with  all  modern  equipment. 
The  hospital,  with  our  Nurses’  Training  School, 
will  soon  become  a  great  evangelizing  agency. 
We  ought  to  complete  our  plant  at  the  earliest 
possible  moment.  A  great  day  is  before  us. 


The  property  of  the  Oklahoma  State  Baptist 
Hospital  is  valued  at  $43,000.  It  is  self-support¬ 
ing  as  far  as  current  expenses  are  concerned. 
The  hospital  was  opened  in  January,  1917. 

Without  a  doubt  we  shall  need  before  the  end 
of  the  five-year  period  a  hundred  thousand  dol¬ 
lars  more  than  our  allotted  amount. 

We  have  the  nucleus  of  a  splendid  plant  here, 
and  our  additional  need  is  room — patients’  rooms 
and  one  more  operating  room.  We  have  two  now. 
We  need  one  hundred  beds  right  now.  where  we 
have  but  thirty. 

We  are  praying  and  longing  for  the  day  when 
we  may  be  enabled  to  take  care  of  not  only  those 
who  can  pay  for  hospital  service,  but  those  who 
come  to  us  seeking  aid  and  are  unable  to  pay  for 
same,  and  there  are  many  of  the  latter. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WIL1  BE  SPENT 

This  hospital  will  share  “as  occasion  arises”  in  the 
$120,333  to  he  raised  for  hospital  purposes  in  Ok¬ 
lahoma. 


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Baptist  Hospital,  Columbia,  S.  C. 


MISSISSIPPI  BAPTIST  HOSPITAL 

JACKSON,  MISSISSIPPI 
H.  M.  King,  Superintendent 

This  has  been  the  greatest  year  of  our  history. 
Hundreds  have  come  to  this  institution  during 
the  year  in  a  most  critical  condition  and  gone 
forth  to  sing  the  praises  of  our  God,  the  surgeons 
and  this  institution.  Our  greatest  need  is  that 
our  people  catch  the  vision  splendid;  that  the 
work  in  which  we  are  engaged  is  Christ’s  work 
and  that  we  must  carry  it  on  until  He  comes. 
Our  needs  are  numerous  and  urgent,  if  we  are 
to  meet  the  demands  of  the  hour. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 
To  Build  One  Story  on  Top  of  Present  Build¬ 
ing  and  Three-story  Wing  on  Rear  of  Plant  $  60.000 
Equipment  of  New  Part  and  Present  Plant  20,000 


X-Ray,  Laundry  and  Electric  Dishwasher  7,000 

Nurses’  Home  20  000 

Endowment  43.000 


Total  $150,000 


MISSOURI  BAPTIST  SANITARIUM 

ST.  LOUIS,  MISSOURI 

Mrs.  I.  H.  Cadwallader,  Superintendent 

The  first  Baptist  hospital  in  the  bounds  of  the 
Convention  was  the  Missouri  Baptist  Sanitarium, 
opened  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  in  1890.  From  ex¬ 
ceedingly  humble  and  small  beginnings  in  an 
old  residence,  with  less  than  a  dozen  beds,  it  has 
grown  into  a  great  modern  institution  with  more 
than  300  beds.  The  free  work  done  by  the  sani¬ 
tarium  is  a  matter  of  deep  interest  to  the  Bap¬ 
tists  of  our  State.  The  total  amount  of  free  work 


for  the  year  was  $10,199.31.  The  receipts  from 
the  charity  boards  and  the  Hospital  Saturday 
and  Sunday  Association  were  $1,568.03,  leaving 
the  total  of  free  work  $8,631.28.  It  should  be 
borne  in  mind  that  this  does  not  include  the 
free  work  done  by  the  physicians  serving  pa¬ 
tients  in  the  institution.  The  above  figures  re¬ 
late  only  to  such  things  as  room,  board,  nurs¬ 
ing,  etc. 


SOUTH  CAROLINA  BAPTIST  HOS¬ 
PITAL 

COLUMBIA,  SOUTH  CAROLINA 
W.  M.  Whiteside,  Superintendent 

We  have  two  reasons  for  appeal: 

First,  Baptists  believe  in  educating  their  own 
constituency  in  every  field  of  service.  In  our 
State  a  large  number  of  Baptist  girls  are  enter¬ 
ing  the  Training  Schools  for  Nurses.  For  years 
we  had  neglected  these  girls.  Many  of  them 
were  going  to  schools  provided  by  others.  We 
have  now  as  good  a  training  school  as  can  be 
found  in  the  South.  Our  Christian  nurses  make 
the  atmosphere  about  the  hospital  wholesome  for 
doctors,  patients  and  their  friends. 

Second,  the  hospital  makes  it  possible  for  us  to 
fulfill  the  Scriptures,  “Whether  one  suffereth  all 
the  members  suffer  with  it.”  Through  their  con¬ 
tribution  to  the  charity  funds  the  churches  have 
found  a  way  to  suffer  with  their  sick. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 

Payment  of  Debt  $110  000 

Support  of  Free  Work  50  000 

Total  $160,000 


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Oklahoma  Baptist  Hospital,  Muskogee,  Okla. 


OKLAHOMA  BAPTIST  HOSPITAL 

MUSKOGEE,  OKLAHOMA 
Miss  M.  Ellen  Cheek,  Superintendent 

Ten  years  ago  our  little  twenty-bed  hospital 
was  opened.  From  August  8,  1909,  to  August  1, 
1919,  we  cared  for  3,650  patients. 

We  are  in  our  new  building,  and  when  it  is 
completed,  will  have  an  eighty-bed  hospital. 
(This  includes  the  old  building.)  Value  of  prop¬ 
erty,  $95,000.  Value  of  equipment,  $15,000.  No 
endowment.  We  are  renting  a  two-story  dwelling 
for  nurses’  home  and  can  accommodate  only  four¬ 
teen  nurses.  We  should  not  have  less  than  thirty 
nurses. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 

This  hospital  will  share  “as  occasion  arises”  in  the 
$120,333  to  be  raised  for  hospital  purposes  in 
Oklahoma. 

CUSHING  BAPTIST  HOSPITAL 

CUSHING,  OKLAHOMA 
Miss  Margaret  Jones,  Superintendent 

The  Cushing  Hospital  is  located  in  the  city  of 
Cushing,  in  the  midst  of  the  greatest  oil  field  in 
Oklahoma.  The  present  building  was  bought  by 
the  Baptists  in  February,  1915.  This  young  in¬ 
stitution,  although  in  limited  quarters,  has  been 
able  to  receive  a  great  many  patients  and  do  an 
unusual  amount  of  charity  work.  It  bids  fair 
to  be  one  of  the  best.  The  outlook  for  it  is  prom¬ 
ising.  Soon  other  buildings  are  to  be  added. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 

This  hospital  will  share  “as  occasion  arises”  in  the 
$120  333  to  be  raised  for  hospital  purposes  m 
Oklahoma. 


MIAMI  BAPTIST  HOSPITAL 

MIAMI,  OKLAHOMA 
J.  C.  Stalcup,  Superintendent 
Our  building  is  a  gift  of  the  citizens  of  Miami 
to  the  Baptist  Convention  of  the  State,  and  cost 
for  grounds,  buildings  and  equipment  between 
$125,000  and  $150,000,  and  is  free  of  debt  so 
far  as  the  Convention  is  concerned. 

Our  next  two  greatest  needs,  as  I  see  it  now, 
are  for  another  building  for  laundry  and  a  clinic 
and  electric  plant;  endowment  to  help  out  on 
our  charity  work  and  overhead  expenses  and  a 
larger  and  better  X-ray  and  laboratory  equip¬ 
ment.  Whatever  may  be  allowed  to  us  out  of 
the  75  Million  Campaign  will  be  invested  along 
those  lines. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 

This  hospital  will  share  “as  occasion  arises”  in  the 
$120,333  to  be  raised  for  hospital  purposes  in 
Oklahoma. 

SOUTHWEST  TEXAS  BAPTIST 
HOSPITAL 

SAN  ANTONIO,  TEXAS 

W.  W.  Lee,  Superintendent 
This  hospital  is  in  the  making.  Land  valued 
at  $60,000  has  already  been  secured  on  which 
there  is  a  debt  of  about  $20,000.  Final  plans 
have  not  yet  been  made  for  the  erection  of  build¬ 
ings.  Plans  are  under  discussion  and  it  is  prob¬ 
able  that  the  first  building  will  cost  about  $250,- 
000.  Of  the  $150,000  apportioned  to  this  hos¬ 
pital,  $20,000  will  be  applied  to  the  liquidation 
of  the  debt  and  the  remaining  $130,000  will  be 
used  towards  the  erection  and  equipment  of  the 
first  building. 


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Baptist  Hospital.  Miami,  Okla. 


CENTRAL  TEXAS  BAPTIST  SANI¬ 
TARIUM 

WACO,  TEXAS 
J.  M.  Dawson,  Superintendent 

Our  sanitarium  is  situated  in  the  most  meager- 
ly  provided  section  of  the  Southwest,  as  concerns 
hospitals.  It  is  in  a  section  which  has  a  popula¬ 
tion  of  one  million  people,  who  can  be  served 


more  conveniently  by  our  hospital  than  any 
other,  it  is  also  situated  under  the  shadow  of 
Baylor  University  and  will  be  of  much  service 
to  the  University  in  the  course  of  the  years. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Additional  Unit  to  Present  Building  $150  000 

Equipment  Both  Units  35.000 

Debt  65,000 


Total  $250,000 


Baptist  Memorial  Hospital,  Mecapm*,  Term. 


BAPTIST  MEMORIAL  HOSPITAL 

MEMPHIS,  TENNESSEE 

S.  G.  Davidson,  Superintendent 

Ten  thousand  sick  and  suffering  among  the 
rich  and  poor  of  the  South  will  be  cared  for  by 
the  Baptist  Hospital  in  Memphis  this  vear.  and 
this  number  will  increase.  Throughout  the  South¬ 
land  other  thousands  are  giving  thanks  to  Al¬ 
mighty  God  for  the  cures  effected  at  this  hos¬ 
pital. 

A  building  to  care  for  200  student  nurses  is 
being  erected.  These  girls  will  be  surrounded 


with  home  comforts  and  Christian  influence  dur¬ 
ing  the  three  years  of  their  lives  here,  when  they 
stand  most  in  need  of  that  care  and  when  thev  are 
being  trained  for  that  noble  profession  of  helping 
to  heal  the  sick. 

To  give  to  this  cause  encompasses  the  great  and 
practical  teachings  of  the  Master,  and  no  greater 
monument  can  be  built  to  the  Baptist  faith  in 
the  South  than  additional  facilities  for  the  care 
of  the  sick  and  the  educating  of  our  young  women 
for  this  great  service. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 

Addition  to  Hospital  $250,000 


TEXAS  BAPTIST  MEMORIAL  SANI¬ 
TARIUM 
DALLAS,  TEXAS 

J.  B.  Franklin,  Superintendent 

Our  overwhelming  need  is  enlargement  of 
grounds  and  multiplication  of  buildings.  Almost 
hourly  we  turn  away  patients,  hundreds  a  month, 
including  scores  of  the  most  influential  Baptist 
as  well  as  non-Baptist  citizens,  besides  the  multi¬ 
tude  discouraged  from  even  applying  by  knowl¬ 
edge  of  our  crowded  condition.  Naturally,  our 
first  need  is  a  new  and  capacious  surgical  build¬ 
ing;  then  an  adequate  free  clinic  building  would 
enable  us  to  daily  care  for  hundreds  where  we 
can  now  care  for  but  scores.  Enlargement  of  our 
hospital  involves  corresponding  enlargement  of 
opportunity  and  prestige  for  Baylor  College  of 
Medicine,  closely  affiliated  with  us. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Land 

$  5.000 

Surgical  Building 

400.000 

(200  private  rooms) 

Equipment  for  the  Surgical  Building 

75.000 

Light  and  Heating  Plant 

60  000 

Steam  Laundry,  with  Equipment 

10  000 

Morgue  and  Laboratory 

10000 

Artesian  Well 

15,000 

Isolation  Building 

25.000 

Total 

$600,000 

HOUSTON  BAPTIST  SANITARIUM 

HOUSTON,  TEXAS 

Robert  Jolly,  Business  Manacer 

The  Baptist  Sanitarium  turns  awav  patients 
every  day  because  of  lack  of  room.  During  the 
first  ninety  days  of  this  year  we  turned  away  205. 
A  majority  of  these  were  Baptists  who  were  com¬ 
pelled  to  go  to  the  Catholic  institution,  and  our 
pastors  often  find  these  patients  in  tears  because 
they  cannot  be  admitted  to  their  own  institutions. 
We  care  for  a  large  number  of  charity  patients 
and  would  care  for  many  more  if  we  had  the 
place  to  put  them.  We  have  no  free  clinic  be¬ 
cause  of  lack  of  room. 

We  have  no  nurses’  home  in  which  to  house 
our  fifty-five  young  women  who  are  giving  their 
lives  here  while  training.  At  present  we  are 
renting  two  old  frame  houses  that  are  scarcely 
worth  the  name  of  houses  and  we  are  unable 
to  give  the  richly  deserved  comforts  to  these 
young  women  who  do  the  hardest  sort  of  work 
ten  hours  each  day,  besides  their  regular  studies. 

HOW  APPORTIONMENT  WILL  BE  SPENT 


Ground  $  85,000 

Hospital  Building  and  Equipment  200.000 

Surgical  Building  100.000 

Negro  Building  10.000 

Payment  of  Debt  80,000 


Total  $475,000 


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